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  • A cheetah sitting beneath tree on savannah.
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  • Men sitting outside a shop on a street known for wedding attire. Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who move to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. According to Chinese government statistics, the current number of migrant workers in China is estimated at 120 million (approximately 9% of the population). China is now experiencing the largest mass migration of people from the countryside to the city in history. An estimated 230 million Chinese (2010), roughly equivalent to two-thirds the population of the U.S., have left the countryside and migrated to the cities in recent years. About 13 million more join them every year—an expected 250 million by 2012, and 300 to perhaps 400 million by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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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 woman sits in a rickshaw.
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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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  • Fish inspectors take a break during their pursuit of salmon poachers.<br />
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A warden shares tea with the poachers in their kitchen tent. There are a lot of unwritten rules. Fish wardens know that it costs $10,000 to get into a poaching camp in Kamchatka, and $10,000 to get back out by helicopter with your catch. The wardens understand that if they destroy fishing gear and caviar production facilities, they have harmed their neighbors enough. And they also can’t afford $10,000 to get criminals back by helicopter for prosecution.<br />
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The poachers know this, and know not to bring any kind of identity papers with them because it is possible for them to be prosecuted with their passports.  The kitchen survives the burn so men can feed themselves. The poachers go free, but have to sit and wait for their helicopter, empty handed which is why the wardens don’t burn their kitchen or sleeping areas.
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  • A Rapa Nui man shares a moment with his pregnant Chilean girlfriend in their modest home. Local population was reduced to 111 in 1877 from outside aggression and disease, but today they number nearly 6,000 people-still outnumbered by the 100,000 tourists who come to see the ancient statues.
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  • A Rapa Nui man with his girlfriend watch tourists explore the moai on Easter Island. As the numbers grow for tourism, they outnumber locals who like their quiet island life.
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  • A Western writer talking with a group of refugee Sudanese men.
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  • A Rapanui dancer entertains tourists.
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  • Rapanui dancers perform for tourists.
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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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  • A boy on a swing in Easter Island's countryside.
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  • A man with his goats in a beach settlement in Saint Louis, Senegal.<br />
The town was once an important economic center during French West Africa, however, it still has important industries, including tourism, a commercial center, a center of sugar production, and fishing.
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  • A trash picker in a plastic laminated casket.
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  • A trash picker in a plastic laminated casket.
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  • A woman brushes her teeth and washes from a bucket in the Philippines.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.<br />
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DARBY DAN
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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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 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 bride wearing gold threads in her sari and a priceless headpiece.
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  • A bride wearing gold threads in her sari and a priceless headpiece.
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  • A bride wearing gold threads in her sari and a priceless headpiece.
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  • A bride wearing gold threads in her sari and a priceless headpiece.
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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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  • The boy prince of Toro in his throne room.
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  • A witch doctor fertility ritual in Uganda.
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  • Bobi Wine could be the next president of Uganda. He appeals to the younger population of Uganda as a rapper, but he also has political ambitions. He is Museveni's biggest threat and has suffered because of that.
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  • Immigrants in the Nisanca neighborhood of Istanbul.
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  • Young commuters on the Barcelona metro.
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  • A family detained in Barcelona because family member is suspected terrorist.
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  • An accordion player in the Barcelona metro.
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  • A man transports a mattress on the Barcelona metro.
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  • An Iraqi family displaced by war awaits orders to move from temporary housing.
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  • Japan has a program that brings in Filipino and Indonesian workers to care for elderly.
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  • Japan has a program that brings in Filipino and Indonesian workers to care for elderly.
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  • A robotic leg with electrodes monitors changes in muscle activity.
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  • A robotic leg with electrodes monitors changes in muscle activity.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • A man and his dog ride to check on the farm.
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  • Black bear on tree branch in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Cheese making at alm in the Tyrol.
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  • Student friends share cigarettes and talk.
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  • Students making costumes for a party.
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  • Students hang out near college campus.
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  • Skiers ride chairs lifts in slopes around Siusi in the Dolomites.
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  • Tailgaters watch a Lions game on TV, parked in the erstwhile Grand Michigan Theater.
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  • A couple talk and laugh at an outdoor restaurant at night.
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  • A couple talk and laugh at an outdoor restaurant at night.
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  • A couple enjoys a private moment at an outdoor restaurant.
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  • Walking in Lummus Park along Ocean Drive in South Beach.
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  • A view from the 103 floor of Willis Tower or the old Sears Tower.
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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 wild mustang foal nuzzles a wild horse activist.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their home countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A girl plays with her toy horse backstage at a heavy metal rock concert held outdoors in Quito.
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  • Talia blends into the diverse bus riders taking the city transportation to Quito's historic district. The transgender prostitute spends her mornings at home doing chores before headed to work in the busy, night life on the streets.
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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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  • Talia watches out to the window as she rides a city bus to Quito's historic district.  A transgender prostitute, she connects with other sex worker friends who look out for each other's safety. The city is trying to improve conditions for sex workers and giving them official identification cards.
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  • A pair of raccoons under a porch.
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  • A woman working on a laptop.
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  • A mother lion with cub.
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  • An all terrain vehicle rider covered in mud in St. Joe State Park.
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  • A woman at cafe in Paris, France.
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  • A woman packages plastic toy cars.
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  • A man and woman package plastic toys.
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  • A woman packages plastic toy cars.
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  • In Dhaka, Bangladesh, laborers sort through a huge pile of discarded plastic bottles.
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  • A woman has her toenails painted. in 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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  • Makeup and costumes for young girls are part of the preparation for the Beef Empire Days princess contest at the Beef Empire Days Rodeo.
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  • A family parks an RV in the field during the harvest so they can escape the elements and the bugs while they eat together. Generational farming is more rare as it is hard to make ends meet, especially during a drought. The farm grows drylands wheat which is a variety more drought tolerant.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • The crew of a Kenya Wildlife Service boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • Preparations for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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