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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Evening chanting by monks and novices at the Buddhist Temple, Wat Pak Khan.
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  • Sad Mary on Holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Santuario Gauchito Gil, near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Southermost city in the world. Legend has it that Gaucho Gil was a good-hearted outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Before his hanging, Gil is said to have pledged to become a miracle worker. Now more than 100,000 people come to visit a shrine at the spot of his death, where they leave offerings and seek miracles of their own ? from help passing a grade in school to cures for illnesses. (from NPR)
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  • Santuario Gauchito Gil, near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Southermost city in the world. Legend has it that Gaucho Gil was a good-hearted outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Before his hanging, Gil is said to have pledged to become a miracle worker. Now more than 100,000 people come to visit a shrine at the spot of his death, where they leave offerings and seek miracles of their own ? from help passing a grade in school to cures for illnesses. (from NPR)
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
    ARG_110109_076_x.jpg
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Thousand Buddha Caves on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos..
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Evening chanting by monks and novices at the Buddhist Temple, Wat Pak Khan.
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  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • VEN_01_xs.A procession carrying a float of a dead Christ in a glass coffin in Caracas, Venezuela during Holy week/ Easter..
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  • Day of the Dead celebration, which involves heavy drinking, in Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Preparing graveyard for Day of the Dead. Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • A procession leaving a neighborhood church during holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Florida Street, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
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  • Copenhagen, Denmark. Roundtower in the old city where Hungry Planet exhibit was held January to March 2011.
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  • Evening prayers chanted at Wat Pak Khan, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120127_004_x.jpg
  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Thousand Buddha Caves on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos..
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  • Thousand Buddha Caves on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos..
    LAO_120123_554_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Evening chanting by monks and novices at the Buddhist Temple, Wat Pak Khan.
    LAO_120120_051_x.jpg
  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Night market, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • At the airport, greeting visitors in Bagan, Myanmar, also knows as Burma.
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  • Dressing a gigante (giant puppet to be used in a procession.) Pueblo Espanol, Barcelona, Spain.
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  • A young woman guide at the Tsukuba, Japan science and technology expo.
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  • A rider showing off his horse at the Mallinath Fair, one of the biggest cattle fairs of Rajasthan that lasts for two weeks. It is held annually in the desert near Tilwara, a village in Rajistahan (March-April). Highly popular breeds of cows, camels, sheep, goats and horses attract people not only from Rajasthan but also Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Rajasthan, India.
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  • A camel at dusk at the Mallinath Fair, one of the biggest cattle fairs of Rajasthan that lasts for two weeks. It is held annually in the desert near Tilwara, a village in Rajistahan (March-April). Highly popular breeds of cows, camels, sheep, goats and horses attract people not only from Rajasthan but also Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Rajasthan, India. .
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  • A young Nepalese boy studying sanskrit at an ashram in Varanasi was swimming with friends in the Ganges River and drowned.
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  • Lighting candles in a graveyard on the Day of the Dead in Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Brightly colored graves in a cemetery at Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
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  • Brightly colored graves in a cemetery at Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
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  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Preparing graveyard for Day of the Dead. Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Ascetic Hindu Priest--called a Sadhu, cloaks himself in a funeral shroud used to adorn bodies before they are cremated (left behind by mourners) at the main burning ghat in Varanasi.
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  • These bells adorn the top of a shrine overlooking the Ganges river at the Harishchandra Ghat, Varanasi, India. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
    IND_040415_138_x.jpg
  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
    LAO_110319_791_x.jpg
  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Scenes made of mirrored glass depicting Laotian daily life adorn the walls of the Buddhist Temple compound Wat Xieng Thong.
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  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
    LAO_110319_778_x.jpg
  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
    LAO_110319_742_x.jpg
  • Donated items and money fill and adorn small funerary houses in the front of the family home in honor of Mr. Voua Sy Amkha, 63, a propaganda official for the Lao government in Luang Prabang, Laos, who died of a stroke. His funeral was held over a series of days—first at home with family and monks in Ban Navieng Kham village, a suburb of Luang Prabang, then cremation at the central crematorium site in Ban Vieng Mai, and then again at home a few days after the cremation ceremony.
    LAO_110319_738_x.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Scenes made of mirrored glass depicting Laotian daily life adorn the walls of the Buddhist Temple compound Wat Xieng Thong.
    LAO_110316_173_x.jpg
  • Bells adorn the top of a shrine overlooking the Ganges river at the Harishchandra Ghat in Varanasi, India. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River. An electric crematorium opened at the site in 1986 but had technical problems and never caught on. The method of cremation by wood fire is steeped in tradition and still favored. Cremation practices here at Harishchandra are the same as those at the larger Jalasi Ghat, at Manikarnika Ghat. It is sometimes called Adi Manikarnika ("the original cremation ground"). Varanasi, India. A ghat is a stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Scenes made of mirrored glass depicting Laotian daily life adorn the walls of the Buddhist Temple compound Wat Xieng Thong.
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  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Portrait of a housewife at home. Her hands are adorned with henna in honor of the wedding she will attend this afternoon. She is covered from head to toe in her home today, as she is when out in public, because she is entertaining guests from outside her family.
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  • A lone goat at the Harishchandra Ghat eats marigold garlands that once adorned the bodies dipped into the Ganges River for final ritual baths before cremation in Varansi, India. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Boontham Khuenkaew places an offering of cucumbers, red pork, bamboo shoot stew, shrimp-paste, and rice before the spirit house in his yard. Spirit houses are the abodes of the many spirits that Thais regard as integral parts of the land. Because the spirits have the power to cause trouble, Boontham periodically placates them by lighting candles and placing a good meal there. He puts a little rice on the ground, and adorns the house with flowers. Thailand. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • A Japanese Colonel Sanders adorns a KFC in Tokyo, Japan. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 94)
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  • A mother in Dubai cooks her family's lunch in their new kitchen building that is separate from the rest of the house. Her hands are adorned with henna in honor of the wedding she will attend this afternoon. She is covered from head to toe in her home today, as she is when out in public because she is entertaining guests from outside her family. As an indigenous citizen of the United Arab Emirates her family is entitled to a substantial subsidy from the government and jobs for the males in the household. Their high standard of living is a far cry from her parents' life as nomadic Bedouin camel herders of the desert. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (From a photographic gallery of images of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 54) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Boontham Khuenkaew places an offering of cucumbers, red pork, bamboo shoot stew, shrimp-paste, and rice before the spirit house in his yard. Spirit houses are the abodes of the many spirits that Thais regard as integral parts of the land. Because the spirits have the power to cause trouble, Boontham periodically placates them by lighting candles and placing a good meal there. He puts a little rice on the ground, and adorns the house with flowers. Published in Material World page 85. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand.
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