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  • People walk along streets and pedestrian bridges in the historic center of Quito.
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  • A guest watches the bride and the groom arrive for the reception at a hacienda near Quito.
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  • This is Red Carpet night for Quito's version of the Grammys. Photographed on Guayaquil avenue in the colonial district, Quito.
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  • Sunday afternoon brings out families and friends to Break dance, skateboard, bike and entertain with the hip hop/ BBoy culture are at La Carolina park.
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  • View of the city of Quito from El Panecillo (from Spanish panecillo small piece of bread, diminutive of pan bread) is a 200-meter-high hill of volcanic-origin.<br />
In 1976, the Spanish artist Agustín de la Herrán Matorras was commissioned by the religious order of the Oblates to build a 45-meter-tall stone monument of a madonna which was assembled on a high pedestal on the top of Panecillo. It is made of seven thousand pieces of aluminum.
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  • Ciudad Mitad del Mundo, a monument to the Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador. Tourists on the plaza that reflects the buildings and view the sites of a monument that was surveyed and platted a few hundred feet in the wrong location.
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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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  • Family bundles in Alpaca wool blankets in the Andean highlands of Ecuador.
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  • Miss Ecuador puts on make up and does her hair in her home.
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  • Tourists take pictures at Ciudad Mitad del Mundo, a monument to the Equator in Quito, Ecuador. The center line is painted on what is said to be the equator but the survey was later discovered to have been a few hundred meters in the wrong location. that doesn't stop tourists from enjoying the sites.
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  • A young girl carefully carries a baby lamb while helping her grandmother care for their sheep in a rural area in the mountains of Ecuador.
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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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  • Ciudad Mitad del Mundo, a 30 meter high monument to the Equator in Quito, Ecuador. Translated as "middle of the world," the tract of land is said to be on the Equator. It was mapped out in 1736 by a French geodesic expedition team led by Charles-Marie de La Comdamine. The French geographers, unfortunately, were off approximately 250 meters, so the monument which includes a painted line denoting the equator was constructed on the erroneous information and now represents a false equator. Tourists visit the site and museum regardless.
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  • Miss Ecuador drives a car to a public event.
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  • Three woman wearing felt fedoras laugh and watch friends at a community gathering in a rural, mountain area of Ecuador. The traditional hats as similar to the Cholita or bowler hats worn by women in Bolivia.
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  • Cloistered nuns enter the cathedral for a brief private morning prayer and return through fenced gates to Convento de Carmen Alto in Quito, Ecuador.
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  • BBoy dancers stop traffic with their acrobatic moves on a city street in Old Quito. Hip hop is popular with young people in Ecuador, and these guys are members of a dance troupe that performs around the city.
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  • A lone man is silhouetted while watching a bonfire burn in the street outside the Cathdral in Loja.  San Pedro Y San Pablo is a Catholic religious-themed fiesta. Many of the indigenous festivals celebrating the movements of the sun and the harvests were incorporated into the Christian tradition, resulting in a syncretism of Catholic religious imagery and older indigenous beliefs.<br />
The Ecuadorian city is nestled in the Cuxibamba Valley at 7,000 feet in elevation.
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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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  • Crowded social scene reflected in a mirrored column.
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  • A transgender prostitute works with other sex workers in the Colonial district of Quito.  Sex workers have a designated leader who speaks out for them with the Office of Social Inclusion for the city. They are issued official identification cards, part of the city's attempt to organize sex workers and to improve their working conditions.
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  • Cotopaxi volcano looms above the hillside town of Quito.
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  • A transgender sex worker straightens her hair extension while getting ready for work. She has her own room and lives with her aunt taking the bus nightly to the historic district of Quito.
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  • Talia, a transgender prostitute waits for clients on deserted, city streets in the historic district outside a Quito hotel.
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  • A woman rides a stationery bicycle for exercise behind a glass-walled workout area outside with a view at a country club in a residential section of Quito.
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  • Students work on clients hair and makeup to learn skills at Princess de Gales, a beauty school in Quito.
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  • Mother Superior's dogs greets her in the morning in the courtyard of Convento de Carmen Alto. The cloistered convent is located in the historic, Colonial district of Quito.
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  • Mother Superior's dog greets her in the morning in the courtyard of Convento de Carmen Alto. The convent is home to cloistered nuns in the center of the historic district of Quito.
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  • A nun makes wafers for communion at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent in the Colonial historic district of Quito.
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  • Mother Superior leads prayer during morning mass at Convento de Carmen Alto.
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  • Morning prayers in the chapel bring a group of cloistered nuns together at Convento de Carmen Alto in Quito.
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  • A worker consoles a crying child at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. The facility exists to help support women and their families in Quito who are in need of place to go if they are abused or threatened.
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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 bride dressed in a traditional gown looks out the window of her family's home before leaving for the church on her wedding day.
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  • Costumed women dressed in ethnic hats and dresses stand on La Ronda, one of the oldest streets in Quito where tourists often pass by.
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  • Musicians fine tune their violin instruments and warm up backstage before a performance of the Quito opera.
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  • Ecuadorian women weave toquilla straw Panama hats from the plaited leaves of a palm-like plant. The friends work together making hats that exported are exported. Hat-weaving evolved in the early to mid-1600s, became known in the early 1800s and more popular in the mid-19th century when miners of the California Gold Rush traveled to California. ThIs was followed by Theodore Roosevelt who was photographed wearing one in 1906 visiting the Panama Canal.
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  • Once a week nurse checks the health of babies brought into the Well Baby Clinic by their mothers to the local hospital in Sig Sig, a rural community located in the foothills of the Andes mountains.
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  • A woman knits a pink bootie for a baby at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. Women seeking refuge are given a place to sleep and eat, medical attention and help to relocate safely with their children.
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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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  • 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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  • A BBoy dance group shows the influence of their indigenous background through colorful knitted masks. The Ecuadorian teens work out dance moves and perform on the streets in Quito.
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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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  • A city bus squeaks to a stop at a park in North Quito and riders crowd in filling empty seats. Talia, carefully coiffed and a fresh coat of lipstick, steadies herself to  ride a bus to Quito's historic district where she will join her friends on streets where transgender prostitutes are allowed to work.
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  • A dog watches as a transgender prostitute walks through the neighborhood to her apartment in north Quito.
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  • Talia's aunt grooms her hair before the transgender sex worker takes the bus to work in the historic district of Quito.
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  • Sex workers talk with women trying to help them who work for Quito's Office of Social Inclusion.  They are issuing official identification cards to prostitutes and attempting to help improve their working conditions. They stand on the street near the Santa Domingo cathedral in the historic district.
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  • A transgender prostitute waits for clients outside a Quito hotel in the Colonial historic district. Workers look out for each other and are issued official identification cards from the city that is trying to improve their working conditions.
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  • A transgender prostitute works with other sex workers in the Colonial district of Quito.  Sex workers have a designated leader who speaks out for them with the Office of Social Inclusion for the city. They are issued official identification cards, part of the city's attempt to organize sex workers and to improve their working conditions.
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  • Woman with Laron syndrome and her son at the mall.
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  • Woman with Laron syndrome and her son at the mall.
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  • An indigenous man from the rainforest protests in Quito surrounded by police.
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  • A patient waits for doctors and nurses to prepare before having plastic surgery in a hospital.
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  • Indigenous children from Otavalo play with a non-traditional blonde doll.
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  • People scavenging Guayaquil's trash dump to find food, clothing and treasures to take home.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • A transgender prostitute works with other sex workers in the Colonial district of Quito.  Sex workers have a designated leader who speaks out for them with the Office of Social Inclusion for the city. They are issued official identification cards, part of the city's attempt to organize sex workers and to improve their working conditions.
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  • The Santa Domingo Church in the Old Town historical district of Quito.
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  • The Basilica Church of the National Vow in the city of Quito.
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  • Neighborhoods on the hills surrounding the city of Quito.
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  • Neighborhoods on the hills surrounding the city of Quito.
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  • A man in silhouette wears a traditional brimmed straw hat.
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  • A transgender prostitute checks her makeup and gets dressed in a public bathroom as a curious boy watches. Talia works in downtown Quito on the streets and a hotel that caters to sex workers.
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  • A transgender prostitute checks her makeup and gets dressed in a public bathroom as a curious boy watches. Talia works in downtown Quito on the streets and a hotel that caters to sex workers.
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  • A transgender sex worker eats lunch at a restaurant with her aunt and a friend while they wait for their clothing to dry at the laundromat in a mall in a Quito neighborhood.
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  • Surrounded by makeup and clothes, a transgender sex worker pins blonde hair pieces or extensions into her hair as she gets ready to go into Quito for work.
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  • A transgender sex worker walks home to her apartment in a neighborhood on the edge of Quito.
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  • A transgender prostitute gives a warning to man harassing her on the street  while waits for clients in the historic district of Quito.
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  • A transgender prostitute waits for clients in a room at a Quito hotel.
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  • It is a slow night as a sex worker sits in the lobby of the hotel where she and other transgender sex workers rent rooms for 30 minutes. The city of Quito is working to organize sex workers to help their conditions.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • Nuns at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent, gather with their dog that all the women love.
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  • Bar patrons dance among flashing red, blue and purple neon lights at a nightclub in Quito.
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  • Young people dance to music at a bar in a district full of clubs that attract night life in Quito.
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  • Nuns take communion from a priest through  a metal fence that divides the women from the public during morning mass in Quito's cloistered, Convento de Carmen Alto.
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  • A client admires her braid, flowers in her hair and freshly applied makeup at Princess de Gales, a beauty school in downtown Quito.
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  • Nuns enjoy coffee and tea for breakfast at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent where women live in silence and behind walls in downtown, historic Quito.
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  • Mother Superior joins other nuns for a tasty breakfast at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent. Women in the cloistered Carmelite religious order in Quito have jobs and duties performed throughout the monastery daily.
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  • Cloistered Catholic nuns ride in a modern glass elevator added to the 16th century Convento de Carmen Alto. The Carmelite order was forced to settle in Quito after destruction of their monastery in a 1698 earthquake. Older nuns appreciate the convenience to climbing stairs to attend prayer in the chapel.
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  • A counselor talks with a troubled child on the playground at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. The facility supports women who need a refuge from abusive or threatening situations. They can receive food, a place to sleep, medical attention and emotional support for them selves and their children.
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  • A counselor talks with a troubled child at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. The facility supports women who need a refuge from abusive or threatening situations. They can receive food, a place to sleep, medical attention and emotional support for them selves and their children.
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  • Following the wedding, a bride wearing a traditional, white gown and lace veil, watches while life-sized cutouts of herself and the groom arrive for the reception at a hacienda near Quito.
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  • A bride in her long, white gown carefully walks up the stairway of her family home in Quito before leaving for the wedding ceremony at a church.
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  • A dress shop owner in Old Town, the historical district of Quito. Colorful dresses are not to be touched unless a shopper wants to buy.
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  • Children congregate after school to play soccer in the remote village of SigSig in the Andes mountains.
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  • A girl plays with her toy horse backstage at a heavy metal rock concert held outdoors in Quito.
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  • Young fans hang on a gate under the stage watching performers at a heavy metal rock concert in Quito.
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  • Randy Olson, a photographer at a heavy metal rock concert in Quito.
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  • A couple embraces while listening to music at a heavy metal rock concert in Quito.
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  • Children play in a small, indoor swimming pool at the day care for the market workers. The facility makes life easier for workers who can drop off their kids nearby and visit with them during their lunch breaks.
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  • A Quito market worker spends a few minutes visiting her daughter at a day care center during the lunch break at her job. Child care facility is adjacent to the workplace which supports working families.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • BBoy and BGirl dancers, a young, urban culture expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance. She's tough--the only female in the dance group that demands physical strength and agility to perform their routines.
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  • BBoy and BGirl dancers, a young, urban culture expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance. The young Ecuadorian teens work hard perfecting their moves--a mixture of modern dance and hip hop with indigenous influences.
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