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  • A retired man holding newborn kittens.
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  • A woman holding a spider.
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  • An Aborigine girl holding a dead duck.
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  • A bonobo holding a cluster of grapes at a language research center.
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  • A Kara boy holding hands with a caucasian man in Lumale Camp.
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  • A Mursi boy, on the banks of the Omo River, holding a leaf frond.
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  • Brides numbered 32 through 43 line up in their queue at the Rose Wedding Festival. Seventy couples in this mass marriage ceremony started at a shopping mall, then traveled to Century Park for the ceremony. The marriage-age consumer is a prime target for first-world companies. The middle class’s under-30-consumer market alone will be the size of the entire EU market in the next decade.
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  • A proud father photographs his son holding up the salmon he caught on their fishing trip.
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  • A cheerleader stands in the shadows in Texas holding a giant megaphone used during games.
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  • A boy, standing in a trash heap, holds a goat.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • A nurse holds up a newborn for excited family members waiting outside.
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  • A man holds a yellow eye fish he caught off of Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A photographer holds a cracked housing for remote cameras used to photograph wild horses stampeding.
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  • A man gently holds his great granddaughter in the living room of the Wyoming family ranch.
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  • An El Molo woman holds a fish.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • An El Molo man with his daughter and catch.
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  • Children learn about at an ancient skull on a tour of the museum.
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  • At a political demonstration, marchers carry independence from Chile banners.
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  • A couple stroll beneath power lines toward moai statues at Ahu Tahai.
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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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  • A man transports a mattress on the Barcelona metro.
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  • Australian children await a naturalization ceremony in Phoenix.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A horse stares curious and watching humans who he has never experienced in the wild.
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  • Aquatic animals in seaweed.
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  • A trap found in the woods.
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  • A lamb being held still.
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  • A boa constrictor at a reptile show.
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  • An iguana at a reptile show.
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  • Evening on the ranch, a young cowboy stands under a full moon with his trained former mustang, Paiute. Decked out with a black hat, a sheriff's badge and red cape, Tanner follows in the footsteps of his mother who trains wild horses and learned the talents of her grandfather.
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  • A wild horse trainer relaxes with her daughter and her feet up after a long session with a difficult horse.
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  • A boy proudly displays the salmon he caught when the family was fishing near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Father and daughter share a tender moment on their boat which is home for the family during fishing season off the coast of Prince of Wales Island in Alaska’s Southeast. When not the fishing for salmon, the family lives on nearby Marble Island and the children are home schooled.<br />
Alaska’s largest and most valuable fisheries target salmon, pollock, crab, herring, halibut, shrimp, sablefish, and Pacific cod.<br />
The total value of Alaska’s commercial fisheries is $1.5 billion for the fishermen, with a wholesale value of $3.6 billion. Economists estimate the commercial seafood industry contributes $5.8 billion and 78,500 jobs to the Alaskan economy. Fisheries management in Alaska is based on scientific assessments and monitoring of harvested populations and is regarded as a model of successful natural resource stewardship.
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  • Cradling his puppy, “Meatball,” a youth hangs out on the dock of the float house. The family built their home off the coast of Prince of Wales Island which is only accessible by float plane or by boat. The houses are characteristic of Southeast Alaska, tied down with ropes and floating on the water in an isolated bay.<br />
Life in remote Alaska offers adventures and an atypical lifestyle rich in experiences.
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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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • Morning prayers in the chapel bring a group of cloistered nuns together at Convento de Carmen Alto in Quito.
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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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  • 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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  • Musicians fine tune their violin instruments and warm up backstage before a performance of the Quito opera.
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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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  • 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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  • Checking her make up, Talia, a transgender prostitute rides in the back row of a city bus headed to Quito's historic district.
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  • Artesianal fishermen off the coast of Tanga.
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  • A bottle washing plant so bottles can be re-used instead of recycled.
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  • A bottle washing plant so bottles can be re-used instead of recycled.
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  • A woman uses a  recycled glass jar to carry her liquids instead of using plastic packaging.
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  • A couple who live in public housing practice the zero waste lifestyle
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  • Tupperware for sale in Mumbai, India.
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  • A Tupperware party in Mumbai, India.
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  • Plastic items for sale in Mumbai, India.
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  • A premature baby in a hospital.
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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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  • A family wades in Manila Bay which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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  • Trash pickers bring their plastic to Alexander Ocag Junkshop where Baseco Happy Land and Aroma earning 15 pesos a kilo for sorted clean plastic. Twenty-five percent of the waste of the Philippines is produced in Metro Manila.
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  • A family with a dry well living in Clovis, New Mexico. About 30 families are without water from drought and heavy agricultural use that pumps from the Ogallala Aquifer.
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  • A cowboy falls to the ground to wrestle a horned calf to pin him to the ground in a rodeo.
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  • A cowboy ropes then attempts to pin a steer during a rodeo.<br />
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The cowboy culture evokes the words “freedom” and “out on the range,” but now exists primarily in feed lots or with professional rodeo cowboys. <br />
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Beef Empire Days in Garden City, Kansas involves a ranch riding competition as well as steer wrestling or bulldogging. A cowboy ropes a steer, drops from his horse and grabs it by the horns to pull it to the ground. It is an intense, fast paced, high energy event first performed in the early 1900s.
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  • Preparation for a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Fishermen snare a young crocodile.
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  • Fishermen in Lake Turkana.
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  • Wedding ceremony near Lokichar in an area called Natur.
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  • A Daasanach child chews on an animal jawbone.
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  • A girl during a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A goat is killed during the Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A goat is killed during the Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A girl attends a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • Catching fish in Lake Turkana.
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  • A fish caught in Lake Turkana.
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  • A fish caught in Lake Turkana.
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  • A fisherman with a fish caught in his net on Lake Turkana.
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  • El Molo fishermen on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • A goat is killed for a wedding celebration.
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  • A goat is killed, roasted and shared at a wedding celebration.
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  • A goat is speared for a wedding celebration.
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  • An El Molo child in the village of Komote in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Fishermen in Komote, an El Molo village in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • El Molo fishermen put out their nets in Lake Turkana.
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  • A Turkana woman helps her El Molo husband with the fishing nets while caring for her child.
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  • The Kenyan government supplies tents for dancers attending the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Fishing on Lake Turkana.
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  • Boys at the John Paul II Rehabilitation Center in the Catholic mission of Lokichar.
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  • Gatherings such as this wedding celebration are important ceremonial occasions for tribesmen living around Lake Turkana.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for her journey home.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for her journey home.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for his journey home.
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  • A falcon perches on its trainer's block.
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  • A camel is given a massage to limber it for competition.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for his journey home.
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  • A camel is hoisted aloft for a massage to limber it for competition.
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  • Hamar tribesmen prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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