Randy Olson, Melissa Farlow Photography

  • Portfolio
  • About
  • Contact
  • Archive
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
x

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
Next
3476 images found
twitterlinkedinfacebook

Loading ()...

  • Masai tribal people cooking meat.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7314_1023378.TIF
  • Masai tribal people at Father Ned's church in Endulen.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7314_1023323.JPG
  • Masai tribal people.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7314_1023338.TIF
  • A Navajo woman lets her goats out to graze in Canyon De Chelly National Monument, a vast park in northeastern Arizona, on Navajo tribal lands. Its prominent features include Spider Rock spire, about 800-feet tall, and towering sandstone cliffs surrounding a verdant canyon. Inhabited by several Native American peoples for millennia, the area is dotted with prehistoric rock art.
    MELISSA FARLOW_06103_495879.jpg
  • Restored Colonial colonnades edge Lima's Plaza de Armas, bringing many people into the streets of Peru's capital city. The era when the City of Kings was founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535, established it as the showplace of Spanish South America.
    MELISSA FARLOW_04526_1187022.jpg
  • Pilgrims and local people bathe in the sacred Ganges River.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7890_1386447.TIF
  • People bathing in the sacred Ganges River in Varanasi.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7890_1386315.TIF
  • A truck stuck in a muddy road with people standing about watching.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7112_763243.JPG
  • Resettled people in a community neighboring a gold mine.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7339_1222975.JPG
  • A group of Umbero people look with wonder at a polaroid photograph.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6998_718284.JPG
  • The Octopus Festival in Carbillino is attended by over 70,000 people.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7393_1057886.JPG
  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people
    RANDY OLSON_MM6689_702588_9.TIF
  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people is reflected in a window.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6689_702588_10.TIF
  • Resettled people in a community neighboring a gold mine.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7339_1222974.JPG
  • People ignore the monsoon rain while strolling the streets on Christmas eve.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7112_972062.JPG
  • Local people try to extract their truck stuck in the monsoon mud.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7112_761676.TIF
  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people is reflected in a window.
    RANDY OLSON_MM6879_708210.TIF
  • People bringing offerings to the Ghoray Shah tomb.
    RANDY OLSON_06569_1071260.JPG
  • Wearing a black hat, a sister waits while her brother unhooks a horse from a sled. Some Ladinos choose a simple life in LaVal the Dolomites, a village so isolated that the people there have their own language. In small villages, population continues to drop and older people go unmarried.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7139_1024127.JPG
  • A Ladin funeral procession seen trough a lace curtained window in a small village of LaVal in the Alps where the people are isolated and speak German and Italian but also Ladin, their own ethnic language.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7139_1024126.TIF
  • A farm family heads home after working in the fields in LaVal under the vista of the Dolomites.  The mountain cliffs are so steep that no glaciers formed on them. The Alps thrust up when tectonic plates collided between Africa and Eurasia.  The Ladin people living in the mountain region have a close bond with nature and the outdoors.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7139_1024120.jpg
  • Two Ladin women dress in traditional clothing that is often worn on Sundays and for ceremonial occasions linked to the ancient customs. Ladins in the small village in the Dolomites divided from other ethnic relatives to the far reaches of the mountains further away from German influences. The people living here speak Italian and German, but Ladin in their first language.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7139_1024084.jpg
  • A farm woman takes a break from baking biscuits and taps on a window to get the attention of her nephew. Ladin village of LaVal is small and the people speak their own ethnic language in this isolated region of the Dolomites. They also speak German and Italian.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7139_1024086.jpg
  • A Ladin farmer drives a horse-drawn sled on steep hills with small patches of melting snow outside the Dolomites. The community of LaVal remains isolated by geography and the people retained their own ethnic language although they also speak German and Italian.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7139_1024128.TIF
  • A young Zapotec woman adorned in a flower wreath sits in the shadows during a wedding celebration in the Chagigo neighborhood of Juchitan. Wedding celebrations happen on weekends in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where traditional culture is strong.  Women take leading roles in business and government in the town with the population of approximately 70,000 people.  The Mexican Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire, as resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.
    MELISSA FARLOW_04526_1187035.jpg
  • Dressed up in a suit and bow tie, a young boy patiently waits for cake to be offered while attending a wedding reception in the restored Colonial colonnades edge of Lima's Plaza de Armas.  Well dressed guests mingle at the party towering over the youth.
    MELISSA FARLOW_04526_1187638-6.JPG
  • Models walk down a runway and across stage lights for a high fashion bridal show featuring designer gowns. The cosmopolitan city of Monterrey is modern and industrial attracting young people with money to spend.
    MELISSA FARLOW_04526_1187042.jpg
  • Beloved icons, St. Bernard dogs were once indispensable for their abilities to save people buried by avalanches. Although replaced by modern equipment, traditions die hard and the dogs are maintained as a tourist attraction.  200 years ago St Bernard dogs saved 45 of Napoleon’s soldiers buried in an avalanche—the dog was bayoneted to death when one soldier thought he was being attacked by a bear.  St. Bernards are cared for by a foundation in Martigny, France.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7139_1024082.TIF
  • A diner watches people cross El Zócalo, Mexico City's grandiose main square, from the elegant Gran Hotel's rooftop restaurant. Built atop ruins of the ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlán, the zócalo is now surrounded by sprawling Spanish colonial architecture, the most prominent being the Metropolitan Cathedral.
    MELISSA FARLOW_04526_1187014.jpg
  • Maternity Ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.  Head of OB/GYN was taught by Jotham Musinguzi who became head of Population and Development Dept. for the government.  Jotham recently retired because he did not agree with the current president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Museveni has a military background and just wants to get BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Jotham said he wants to bump Uganda's population up to 60M before he even starts to worry about infrastructure for all these people. Uganda is about 30M now.  About half of Uganda's population is under 15 and life expectancy is about 50.  Population has doubled from 1990 to now.
    MM7890_20100324_00121.tif
  • Sunset and shadows fall across a building in Lowry Pueblo, an archeological site located in Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. A treasure of Ansazi Indian ruins in Colorado, the pueblo was constructed around 1060 AD atop abandoned pit houses from an earlier period of occupation. A total of 40 rooms and 8 kivas at its peak in the early 11th century, it was home to approximately 100 people. The 176,000 acre monument of federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management includes 20,000 archeological sites.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6659_705729-33.JPG
  • Families gather outside a small, white-painted church for a ramps dinner. Allium tricoccum, wild leek, wild onion, spring tonic, or most commonly, the ramp is a wild plant that grows in the mountains of Appalachia. It resembles a scallion and tastes like a cross between an onion and garlic and dinners are a long-standing community tradition.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6773_1023703.jpg
  • New Yorkers enjoy Drummer's Grove who have gathered informally in a corner of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park every Sunday afternoon since 1968. The mix of dancers, musicians, and others who listen and participate in the celebratory atmosphere.<br />
<br />
Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted did not envision Drummers Grove in the 1860s when he and Calvert Vaux planned an urban space of meadows, woodlands, and pastoral views to help people connect with nature in New York.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6560_956187.jpg
  • Living below an encroaching mine, residents find their clear running stream muddy. They walk up the creek looking for the source of the sediment spoiling drinking water in the holler.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6773_1023745.jpg
  • A farmer herds his cows off the steep hillside back to return to the barn for a morning milking. Some alpine farms attract young people who desire a simple and rustic lifestyle.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7139_1024122.jpg
  • Bachelors in a small rural village of 65 people make a small parade as they continue the region's traditional Carnival celebration. Dressing for a Pagan wedding, unmarried men march ceremoniously from house to house, then families invite them inside for food and spirits as they celebrate the end of winter.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7139_1024023.TIF
  • A Laufarija carnival festival participant, Daisy, holds her mask carved from Linden wood. She is one of 25 characters that symbolize the features and weaknesses of particular groups of people. The cultural tradition is an annual play held in the streets to celebrate the coming of spring to Slovenia.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7139_1024021.jpg
  • Fur-costumed revelers at a spring festival surround a woman during their parade through the streets.  Men dressed in white sheep's fur don tall hats to celebrate Slovenia's version of Carnival. In Ptuj, the oldest town in the Slovenia, they ring bells to scare off evil spirits and to chase away winter which brings spring and abundance to the land. Kurent is a mythological god of joy and wine and sometimes a creature with a magical instrument who persuades people to dance.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7139_1024019.jpg
  • Men and boys dress in white sheep's fur costumes to celebrate Slovenia's traditional version of Carnival. In Ptuj, the oldest town in the Slovenia, they parade ringing bells to scare off evil spirits and chase away winter believed to bring spring and abundance to the land. Kurent is a mythological god of joy and wine and sometimes a creature with a magical instrument who persuades people to dance.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM7139_1024017.TIF
  • A woman arranges items on a car to sell at a roadside flea market. West Virginians have always lived with the backdrop of the coal train passing by and money has gone out of town on that train—it is no coincidence that some of the poorest people in the US live in coal country. <br />
One of the main poverty issues of Appalachia stems from the fact that the employed population makes less money that others in the U.S. which was a trade off for other assets like a rich family life.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6773_1014662.jpg
  • Attorney Brian Glasser briefs some of the 152 frustrated Sylvester, West Virginia citizens who banded together in a lawsuit in an effort to halt the assault on their air. Armed with video taped evidence, photographs, and testimony, the residents proved that black dust blanketed their town from a coal stockpile and preparation plant.<br />
They won but little has changed (the company bought a street sweeper for the community) but it was a moral victory for a group of people who saw property values plummet in the black cloud that hung over their town. None of the 152 mostly retirees had ever been involved in a lawsuit.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6773_996258.jpg
  • Framed in blue shutters, a dog hangs out of an open window watching people walk by.
    MELISSA FARLOW_04526_1187554-2.JPG
  • Suri women with lip plates.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_7.TIF
  • Banna males prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_6.TIF
  • Banna males prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual and participants are photographed by tourists.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306605_6.TIF
  • Banna males prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306454.TIF
  • Suri women with lip plates.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306438.TIF
  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_8.TIF
  • A woman with a nail piercing the area under her lower lip.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306567.TIF
  • A Banna male becomes a man during a cattle jumping initiation ritual.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306457.TIF
  • Preparations for a wedding in Tulgit.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306450.TIF
  • Suri women with lip plates.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306448.JPG
  • Suri women with lip plates.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306447.JPG
  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306446.JPG
  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306445.TIF
  • A Suri woman with a lip plate carries her baby.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306443.TIF
  • A Suri woman with a lip plate.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306439.TIF
  • Suri cover themselves with clay body paint for ceremonial pole fights.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306429.TIF
  • Residents of a remote village rush to meet the supply helicopter.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7593_1248213.TIF
  • Koryak residents of Khailino, Kamchatka, Russia, rush to get their mother to the poacher's helicopter so she can get medical treatment in Petropavlovsk. The poaching situation in these areas allows some individuals to pay for helicopter time and on return trips the helicopter is often empty. If you know poachers it's possible, in this case, to get medical care.
    MM7593_20080730_02970.tif
  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_15.TIF
  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_14.TIF
  • Suri covers himself with clay body paint for ceremonial pole fights.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306536.JPG
  • A Mursi woman wearing ear discs in the village of Galap.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306513.JPG
  • A Kara woman nurses her baby behind a shelter in a field.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306472.TIF
  • A Kara woman prepares food near Lake Diba.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306471.JPG
  • Building a new hut in Tulgit for the village representative.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306437.TIF
  • Boys in the Suri village of Tulgit.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306427.JPG
  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_5.TIF
  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_10.TIF
  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_11.TIF
  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_12.TIF
  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_13.TIF
  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306608_16.TIF
  • A Mursi woman wearing a lip plate in village of Galap.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306573.TIF
  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306566.TIF
  • Arbore women building high-ceilinged huts.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306521.TIF
  • Arbore women wearing goat skins.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306520.TIF
  • A writer is carried to the Omo River's muddy shore.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306501.JPG
  • Food aid in Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306498.JPG
  • Kara family doing flood recession agriculture on the banks of the Omo.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306467.JPG
  • A work group clears and burns fields in preparation for planting.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306444.TIF
  • Suri women building a hut in a village outside of Tulgit.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306442.TIF
  • A family has a fourth day ceremony for a newborn child.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306434.TIF
  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306433.JPG
  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306431.TIF
  • Missionary clinic in Tulgit.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306605_4.TIF
  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306604.JPG
  • Portrait of a Mursi woman wearing a lip plate in village of Galap.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306565.TIF
  • Kara boys and girls dance at a celebration.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306509.TIF
  • Kara men prepare for an evening dance celebration.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306508.TIF
  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306504.JPG
  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306468.TIF
  • A Banna man whips a woman during an initiation ritual.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306456.JPG
  • At a wedding party, Kara guests of all ages are offered sorghum beer.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306606.TIF
  • The Kara tribe prepares for a coming of age bull jumping ceremony.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306571.TIF
  • Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten on both sides of the Omo River.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306564.TIF
  • Food aid in Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306563.TIF
  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan .
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306562.JPG
  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306561.JPG
Next