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  • Mbuti boys endure whippings during a puberty ritual ending the manhood ceremony.<br />
Women carry whips to meet the men halfway through the village, and a melee ensures where they beat each other. Women try to control the destiny the child but the men traditionally win, and each boy is paraded through the village for the scarification ritual.
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  • Boys jump from a sunken canoe into the waters off a fishing village. Brightly coloured pirogues or canoes line the beaches in Saint-Louis.<br />
Upwelling – whereby cold nutrient-packed waters from the ocean’s depths rise up to nourish life on the surface – keeps West African waters some of the richest in the world.
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  • Boys play on the slippery slides inside a semitrailer used to haul the wheat crop from the fields to the grain elevator. The farm is planting a drought tolerant variety.
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  • Boys swim in the algae filled water of Elyse Springs.
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  • Curious boys look at a drone while at the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Flower girls and ring boys and a ringbearer at a wedding.
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  • The mask of a medicine man at the door where  Pygmy boys are secluded before the rituals signifying their manhood.
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  • Two boys climb a grass covered hill in the Dolomites.
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  • Two boys help their uncle on a farm in the Dolomites.
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  • Boys practice roping sheep.
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  • Young boys raise their hands in response to a teacher in an elementary school class in Cuenca, Ecuador.
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  • Boys playing at the dump.
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  • Boys play with toy tractors outside the arena at the Beef Empire Days rodeo where an cowboys compete in an event.
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  • Boys pole a log boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • Boys collect water into buckets from Lake Turkana.
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  • Boys pour water into buckets from Lake Turkana.
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  • Boys climb a tower in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • El Molo boys at the water's edge in Komote in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Kara boys stand on the mud-caked shoreline of the Omo River.
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  • Kara boys and girls dance at a celebration.
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  • Boys in the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • Mbuti boys during a puberty ritual where a medicine man watches over the ceremony.
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  • Pygmy boys dance wear leaves on their mouths for silence as they go through a manhood initiation called nKumbi.  They wear ceremonial skirts for their circumcision ceremonies, and when the ritual is completed, the skirts will hang in the trees at the entrance to their village in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<br />
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Pygmies are nomadic hunter-gatherers who rely on a healthy forest to survive. They have no claim to their own home territory, however, because the colonial Belgians assigned land rights only to sedentary groups
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  • Mbuti boys wear grass skirts during their circumcision ceremony.
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  • An altar boy holds a candle inside a dimly-lit church.
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  • A horse and rider stop to cool off in the shallow waters of the Suwannee River near the Florida Sheriff's Boys Ranch in Lake City.
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  • A boy, standing in a trash heap, holds a goat.
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  • A young boy draws on paper at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. Outside the window of a room filled with stuffed animals, children play on swing sets and recreational equipment.
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  • A boy with a caught fish on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • A young boy paddles a tortora reed boat through the surf near a little village of Huanchaco located north of Lima.  The caballitos, or "little horses," are traditional hand-made boats used by fishermen in the region.
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  • A small boy in typical infant split pants urinates from a woman's lap.
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  • A teenage boy plays banjo on the porch for parents.
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  • Portrait of boy with his pet rooster.
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  • Boy prepared for surgery at a volunteer clinic.
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  • A young boy stands in front of a blackboard with a poster showing anatomy and he answers questions in health class in an elementary school in Cuenca, Ecuador.
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  • Pygmies bend branches to create shelter at hunting camps. The semi-nomadic tribal boys are going through the circumcision ceremony called nKumbi are accompanied the adults to the camp.  They have their own structure and are sent off into the forest to hunt or fish.
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  • Young Kara boys wait for a wedding party to start.
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  • Boys swim in the algae filled water of Elyse Springs.
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  • Boys at the John Paul II Rehabilitation Center in the Catholic mission of Lokichar.
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  • A young boy picks flowers with his family who was harvesting to sell for Day of the Dead, the Mexican fiesta celebration. <br />
Workers harvest bouquets of cempasuchil or marigold flowers from fields full of yellow flowers cultivated to decorate altars and graves for the Mexican fiesta.
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  • A young boy carries a bouquet of bright, red zempazuchitl flowers that his family was harvesting to sell for Day of the Dead, the Mexican fiesta celebration. Pickers work late into the evening under the shadow of Popocatépetl, or El Popo as locals call the volcano.
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  • A man sells mirrors in the Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • Shopping in a childrens' clothing store.
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  • A man on a computer and a woman with a child in a Chinese apartment.
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  • A man shoots a photo of his grandson and daughter in law.
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  • Sisters with Laron syndrome and their children shopping for toys at the mall.
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  • The Kakuma Refugee Camp is near Lake Turkana and the northern border of Kenya. 123K  people have lived in this camp since the beginning of the war between Sudan and Ethiopia and have continued to live there thru the 20 year conflict in South Sudan. The town of Kakuma has grown to 70,000 because of the UN presence. Turkana are the local tribal people and would normally be agrarian but they now spend their time cutting firewood and making charcoal for the refugees in the camp. The exchange is generally for food. There are many Nuer and Dinkas in this camp as well as DRC folks from Kivu and Goma primarily.
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  • Villagers carrying firewood outside Millenium Village - an experimental village run by the UN.  The UN tried to find a cluster of villages that lacked food security, and then tried to solve some of the problems in a controlled environment.  This village has been going for one year, and they just gathered benchmark data for the first six months.
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  • Students clean dorms at a government school.
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  • An afternoon in an opulent home in Huaxi.
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  • A teenager dribbles a basketball on an outdoor court with Nike ads.
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  • A woman tries on her wedding dress at a dressmaker's shop.
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  • Biologists searching for fish specimens in the Potaro River.
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  • The staircase of an opulent home in Huaxi.
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  • A Rapanui impresario takes a break at home while waiting for tourists to arrive at his restaurant.
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  • Children play on the shore of Manila Bay which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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  • Moscow children, born with terminal-limb deficiency, in these cases the left forearm is missing, are all from two neighborhoods, were the incidence of congenitally deformed children seems to be higher than elsewhere.
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  • Are you going to heaven?
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  • Mbuti Pygmies at a forest hunting camp in the Ituri forest. The future for indigenous tribes is threatened by logging, mining and urbanization moving into the forest.
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  • School children playing in Kireka.
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  • The Nakulabye slum in Kampala.
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  • A day and boarding school in the Nakulabye neighborhood of Kampala.
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  • Schoolchildren, among them war orphans, pack a morning assembly.
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  • A birthday party in one of Istanbul's immigrant neighborhoods, Masiak.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Children living in the Dharavi slums outside Mumbai.
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  • Parade of children carry lanterns in an Easter passion play.
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  • Bread and other baked goods at the Findlay Public Market.
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  • A fountain on the newly designed Riverwalk along the Detroit River.
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  • Detroit Tigers baseball fan line up outside Comerica Park before a game.
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  • Visitors view an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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  • A blur envelopes a young parishioner who carries a candle-lit canvas lantern in a processional that celebrates Christians' Holy Week. It is a centuries-old annual Mendrisio tradition.
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  • Border collies received affection on a ranch they help manage.
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  • Young cowboys turn a ranch cattle chute into a homegrown playground on a ranch near Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon. The young cow pokes learn to ride horses when they are young, and help move cattle on the ranch.
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  • A young man patiently works with a rescued young wild horse foal.
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  • A young man patiently works with a rescued young wild horse foal.
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  • A young wild horse advocate stopped a US Representative in the wall way to lobby against horse slaughter bills.
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  • A young wild horse advocate and his mother sat in a congressional office in Washington, DC to lobby against horse slaughter bills.
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  • An Ecuadorian family grieves at the grave site of a man who was tragically electrocuted when fixing an antenna on the roof of his home to better watch a world soccer match.
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  • Children of market workers at a Quito day care center burst into laughter with joyous faces as they watch a magician, a clown, and ethnic dancers.
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  • A father watches his son BBoy dancing, a young, urban culture expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance. Their living room floor is a perfect space to practice difficult hip hop moves.
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  • An Ecuadorian family eats breakfast together in their home in a Quito suburb. It is a tradition before family members go to school or work.
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  • A father takes to the floor of the living room in their home as he shows his son moves to try when BBoy dancing. Young, urban culture is expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance similar to hip hop.
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  • Skateboarders show off their skills and moves in graffiti-lined tubes where families gather together to watch on a Sunday afternoon in a Quito city park.
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  • Graffiti lined tubes where families play and skateboarders show off their moves on a Sunday afternoon when people head to the parks in a Quito.
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  • A father skilled in BBoy dancing helps his son practice difficult move in a Quito park. A young, urban culture celebrates hip hop expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance.
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  • Two actors warm up on a stage in an empty auditorium before performing a comedy  that requires strenuous physical moves at a theater, Teatro de la Scala in Cumbaya, near Quito.
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  • Dancers perform acrobatic moves while practicing BBoy or breaking, a hip hop style of street dance. The gravity defying moves are a large part of their appeal.
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  • Members of a BBoy dance group warm up at rehearsal. The dancers mix indigenous influences with modern dance moves and practice their daring routines in the basement of a building in old Quito.
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  • A member of a BBoy dance group passes the hat after performing on a plaza in Old Quito. A crowd gathered when they heard music and saw the young teens dancing in the street. The group are rewarded for their entertainment with enough money to divide between them.
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  • Dancers perform acrobatic moves while practicing BBoy or breaking, a hip hop style of street dance. The one girls dancer performs a number of moves similar to a gymnast.
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  • Dancers perform acrobatic moves while practicing BBoy or breaking, a hip hop style of street dance. The groups of young teens mix modern dance moves with indigenous influences. They are athletic and work hard perfecting their dance steps.
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  • Young dancers perform acrobatic moves while practicing BBoy or breaking, a hip hop style of street dance. The talented group mixes indigenous influences with modern dance steps and were brought together by a Ecuadorian choreographer interested in helping them navigate the cultural landscape. He helped find them a space to practice and oversees their rehearsals in Quito.
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  • Costumed young dancers move to the beat of a young drummer who blends African and Peruvian rhythms in their living room. The family descended from slaves brought to work in the area's cotton plantations.
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  • Mexican schoolchildren walk in pairs holding hands through the ruins of Teotihuacan. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is the most visited site in Mexico. <br />
Teotihuacan is known for having the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas.
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  • A blurring of cultures as children dance in the street wearing Halloween masks in celebration of Day of the Dead. The American and Hispanic celebrations coincide involving masks and candy in the small Mexican town where families use burros and make mescal from agave plants.
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  • A grandmother works picking flowers with her family under the smoking volcano Popocatepetl in nearby Atlixco, flower capital of Mexico.  Workers harvest bouquets of zempazuchitl flowers for Day of the Dead celebrations.  Fields full of yellow flowers are cultivated to decorate altars and graves for the Mexican fiesta.
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  • On the edge of the PanAmerican highway, a Huastec Indian family plays soccer kicking the ball under a clothes line in the front courtyard. The family still follows the old ways in the mountains of Mexico, living in a thatched adobe house and surviving on farming.
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  • Elders have a meeting in a field next to the school they built.
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  • A family removes labels from plastic bottles, sorting green from clear ones to sell to a scrap dealer.
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