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  • A woman dances at dawn on the prow of the art installation "HMS Love", a sinking art ship in the desert. It is one of many art installations at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA..
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  • Copenhagen, Denmark. Noma Restaurant. Voted number one in the world.
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  • Temple of Literature during National Poetry Day, Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • National Museum of Nuclear Sciece and History, Albuquerque, NM
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  • Reveler with Magic Bus at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA..Painted bus in the desert, Burning Man Festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada. (1998).
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  • Ottersland Dahl family, of Gjettum, Norway (outside Oslo). The grandparents watch cartoons with the grandchildren, Olav, 6 Hakon, 3, and Sverre, 1.5 in their basement TV room.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • San Francisco, California. Haight street hippie types.
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Couple at a picnic, Nags Head Woods, NC, USA. Land preserved by the Nature Conservancy. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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  • Jill McTighe and family, Willesdon, London, UK
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Gemma Sastre and Eino Brand feeding pigeons in Valencia, Spain.
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  • Gemma Sastre and  Eino Brand feeding pigeons in a park in  in Valencia, Spain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Newly married couple being photographed across the river from the Guggenheim Art Museum, Bilbao, Spain. Frank Gehry, architect.
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  • Old Town Square wedding. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • New Year's Eve party in cave at Clos Pegase Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • New Year's Eve party in cave at Clos Pegase Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Daryl Sattui and Yana Albert, his girlfriend who he proposed to in his backyard in Calistoga, California shortly before the photo was taken. Napa Valley.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio on board  the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists? it is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time. In Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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  • Jill McTighe and family, Willesdon, London, UK
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  • Jill McTighe and family, Willesdon, London, UK
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  • Cartagena, Colombia; a couple walks on the Pacific beach at sunset at Boca Grande.
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  • Old Town Square wedding.  Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Old Town Square wedding. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Old Town Square wedding. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Bride and groom leaving the wedding chapel at an expensive hotel in Osaka, Japan.
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  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway. Anders Ostensen, 48, and his son, Amund, 8, on the back porch of their farmhouse as a windy thunderstorm approaches. Model-Released.
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  • New Year's Eve party in cave at Clos Pegase Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Daryl Sattui and Yana Albert, his girlfriend who he proposed to in his backyard in Calistoga, California shortly before the photo was taken. Napa Valley.
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  • Young couple lounges on the bridge over the Arno River Florence, Italy.
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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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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  • Father and daughter watch a parade for the patron saint of the village of Malojloj on the South Island. U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands.
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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  • Perennial Burning Man attendee Nambla the clown (NAMBLA is an acronym for North American Man Boy Love Association) sports fake blood and push pins. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA..
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  • Perennial Burning Man attendee Nambla the clown (NAMBLA is an acronym for North American Man Boy Love Association) sports a crown of candles and dripping wax. Black Rock Desert, Nevada: Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child:every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. .There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it..
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child: every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. .There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it..MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child: every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it.
    GUM_12_120_xs.jpg
  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child:every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. .There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it..
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  • Alvaro Villa translated his boyhood love of electronics into AVG, an animatronics company he founded in the Los Angeles, California, area. Today he takes great pleasure in showing off animatronic figures like the Crypt Keeper or Little Man, the hip figure (with Villa) that "represents" the company at trade shows. Wearing a baseball cap and sneakers, it tirelessly delivers a humorous prerecorded spiel that is synchronized with a video on a screen behind it. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 208.
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  • Australia's population is concentrated on the coasts, which means that seafood is a major part of most people's diets; especially shrimp and spiny lobster (shown here being harvested off Cape Otway, near Melbourne). The Molloys, of Brisbane, Australia, are an exception. Although John and Sean love seafood, Em is skeptical and Natalie can't abide it. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 32).
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  • Advertisement on the window of a McDonald's restaurant in Beijing, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 94) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one’s body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore—a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi. There are other rivers in India, such as the Shipra which flows through the sacred city of Ujjain, that are considered sacred as well, but none holds the importance of the Ganges. Sometimes a small dummy representing the person will be burned at Jalasi.<br />
Only male family members are present and tend to the bodies at the cremation site as no show of emotion is allowed and also, they don’t want any of them jumping onto the fire, says one manager at the ghat. The body is carried to the water’s edge for a last dip, and then the main mourner prepares for his role in the ritual burning.<br />
The main mourner—usually the eldest son or closest male family member’s hair and facial hair is shorn, and his nails are cut. He wears a simple dhoti (traditional Indian male’s wraparound clothing). The chief mourner follows a prescribed ritual, which involves circling the body and showering it with ghee (clarified butter) and incense—like sandalwood—again often purchased from one of the local funereal accessories vendors. It takes about three hours for an average sized body to burn completely. If a family is poor and doesn’t have enough money to buy the right amount of wood to burn the body, then wood left over from other fires might be used. It takes about 350 kilos of wood to burn a body completely.<br />
Afterward, the workers dump ashes from the burned pyres and douse
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant..Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable.
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable.
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable.
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  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, India. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore?a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi.
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  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore, a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations.
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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, eats a late lunch while watching MTV  at his home before going to work in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Shashi loves his mother's traditional southern Indian food at home, but when he's at work his dinner options are KFC and Beijing Bites, the fast-food restaurants on the ground floor of the high-rise where he works, located on the edge of Bangalore. Like many of his co-workers, Shashi relies on quick fast food meals, candy bars, and coffee, to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to westerners about various technical and billing problems. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, eats a late lunch while watching MTV at his home before going to work in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Shashi loves his mother's traditional southern Indian food at home, but when he's at work his dinner options are KFC and Beijing Bites, the fast-food restaurants on the ground floor of the high-rise where he works, located on the edge of Bangalore. Like many of his co-workers, Shashi relies on quick fast food meals, candy bars, and coffee, to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to westerners about various technical and billing problems. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Melahat Çelik mixes the dough for savory arugula-feta filled Turkish pastries in her apartment kitchen and then will sit on the living room floor and roll paper-thin pastry called yufka around the filling to create an eggroll-style pastry her family loves. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After Melahat Çelik mixes the arugula-feta filling for a savory Turkish pastry in her apartment kitchen, she sits on the living room floor and rolls paper-thin pastry called yufka around the filling to create an eggroll-style pastry her family loves. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 259).
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  • McDonald's restaurant, Beijing, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • McDonald's fast food chain in Beijing, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 95) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • Mourners comfort each other at the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore, a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death.
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  • The clay Kumbha (water pot) has a special significance in the Hindu cremation ritual. It is blessed in the early stages of the ritual and then, most often during the series of rituals designed to ensure the proper path in death for a loved one, the Kumbha is carried by a mourner three times around the burning body then dropped (and it breaks).
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  • An exhausted mourner sits above the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat and lets ashes rain down on him. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore, a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death.
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  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, India. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore, a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death.
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  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore, a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death.
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  • The "eternal fire" at the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. All funeral pyres are lighted from embers from this fire which burns above the ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore,  place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death.
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  • Shashi Kanth parks his motor scooter outside the flat he shares with his mother before leaving for his overnight job in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in December was 3000 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches; and 123 pounds. Like many of his co-workers, Shashi, one of thousands of call center employees working in Bangalore, India, relies on quick fast food meals, candy bars, and coffee, to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to westerners about various technical and billing problems. Shashi's mother cooks traditional southern India food for him at home, which he loves, but when he's at work , KFC and Beijing Bites, fast food restaurants on the ground floor of the building he works in, are his dinner options.
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  • The mother of Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, prepares food in the small kitchen at the home she shares with her son in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Shashi loves his mother's traditional southern Indian food at home, but when he's at work his dinner options are KFC and Beijing Bites, the fast-food restaurants on the ground floor of the high-rise where he works, located on the edge of Bangalore. Like many of his co-workers, Shashi relies on quick fast food meals, candy bars, and coffee, to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to westerners about various technical and billing problems. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Chef Jean-Pierre Rodot at his restaurant, La Cafeterie, with a bowl of witchetty grub soup in Alice Springs, Central Australia. A live witchetty grub (Witchetty grubs are the larvae of cossid moths) floats on top of the soup. Rodot loves witchetty grubs and ate this one alive, savoring its yellow egg-yolk-like guts and declaring them "Delicious!" (pages 4,5. See also page 23).
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  • The Blue Lagoon, a surreal-looking spa created near the Svartsengi power plant, outside Iceland's capital city of Reykjavik, Iceland. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity ? and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is cool enough. Environment. Published in the book Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 168-169.
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  • Chinese McDonald's in Shanghai's Pudong new area. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
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  • McDonald's icon in Shanghai, China. (From a photographic gallery of images of fast food, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 95) Fast Food. Has any human invention ever been as loved and loathed as fast food? Feelings run deep about the huge U.S. fast-food chains, especially McDonald's and KFC. Internationally recognized as symbols of Americanization, globalization, and overflowing schedules, they are also symbols of convenience, reliability, and (usually) cleanliness.
    CHI97_0011_xxf1s.jpg
  • Two young women lounging in the water at the Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant..Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Madru, who is nicknamed Dru is a Brahmin priest who spends most of his time hanging out at the Varanasi burning ghats explaining the ritual aspects of the cremation site to tourists and journalists alike. Sometimes he is given cash presents in exchange for the information. When he or another Brahmin priest assists at a cremation, he works as a guide as well for the chief mourner, who must follow a prescribed ritual to ensure the proper send off for the loved one. Brahmins are given gifts by the mourning family throughout the ritual process, which begins at home when a Hindu dies and continues for many months and then yearly. 
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  • An elderly widow living out her last days near the Manikarnika Ghat, in Varansi, India..Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore?a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations.
    IND_040410_311_x.jpg
  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat in the city of Varanasi, India. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore?a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi. A ghat is a stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
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  • The Blue Lagoon, a surreal-looking spa created near the Svartsengi power plant, outside Iceland's capital city of Reykjavik, Iceland. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity ? and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is cool enough. Material World Project.
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