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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets dives into the  pihranha invested Solimoes River from the floating home of João Agustinho Cardoso, a fisherman who lives on a branch of the Solimoes River upriver from the town of Manacapuru, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. MODEL RELEASED.  PJM
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  • Surfer Ernie Johnson at home in his 38 foot sailboat moored at Dana Point Harbor in California. (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Workers enjoy a meal in the cafeteria of a construction company building the Zhrong Rong Jasper Tower in Pudong, Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Ernie Johnson carries his surf board on the beach of the Pacific near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, California.  (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
    TAI_110327_013_x.jpg
  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Portrait of a naga who has been smoking hash at Kumbh Mela.  Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • USA_SFOL_13_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • Death Valley. Skateboarding on road along Artist's Drive through Artist's Palette.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • A young girl eating a snack sitting on the doorstep of her thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico as a pig comes by to sniff for food scraps.
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  • Takeuchi Masato (ring name Miyabiyama) makes a handprint during a break at pre-tournment practice in Nagoya,  Japan.  The prints are given to fans and sponsors. (Takeuchi Masato is featured in the book What I Eat, Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    Japan_JAP_060628_424_xw.jpg
  • A member of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) gets his hair fixed while others clean the practice ring in preparation for a tournament in Nagoya, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_060628_370_xw.jpg
  • Rafting on the Truckee River downstream from Lake Tahoe, CA
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. Beach at Ogunquit, ME. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
    TAI_110327_022_x.jpg
  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
    TAI_110326_228_x.jpg
  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
    TAI_110326_227_x.jpg
  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
    TAI_110326_220_x.jpg
  • USA_SFOL_05_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
    USA_SFOL_05_xs.jpg
  • USA_SFOL_02_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
    USA_SFOL_02_xs.jpg
  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body 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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  • A festival participant 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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  • Base Camp at Redwood Summer, a conglomeration of environmental activists who camped out near Willow Creek, California, USA, to protest excessive logging during the summer of 1990.
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  • Passerbys attending to the wounds of a car accident victim on the roadside of Highway 121, Napa County, California. USA
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • BBQ onboard for dinner, and polar plunge on the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, 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. .
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  • Crocodile Harry, an artist who has made his home and studio in an abandoned opal mine. Coober Pedy. South Australia.
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  • May 1: Worker's Day protestors in the Zocolo, the central square, in Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • A young girl eating a snack sitting on the doorstep of her thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico as a pig comes by to sniff for food scraps.
    MEX_068_xs.jpg
  • A landmine victim recovering in a hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war March 1992.
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  • The heavily built torso of Masato Takeuchi, a member of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) during pre-tournament  practice in Nagoya, Japan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   He is 29 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 400 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya): the members of Miyabiyama's Sumo Team cook and eat together while practicing for a tournament in Nagoya.
    Japan_JAP_060628_615_xxw.jpg
  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya): the members of Miyabiyama's Sumo Team cook and eat together while practicing for a tournament in Nagoya.
    Japan_JAP_060628_590_xxw.jpg
  • Members of Miyabiyama's team enjoy a meal while sitting on tatami mats in Nagoya, Japan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    Japan_JAP_060628_089_xxw.jpg
  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya): the members of Miyabiyama's Sumo Team cook and eat together while practicing for a tournament in Nagoya. The younger ones do most of the work. Sumos cook and eat chanko nabe, a stew pot of vegetable and meat or fish, at nearly every meal. It  is eaten with copious amounts of rice and numerous side dishes. Miyabiyama eats now to maintain his weight rather than to gain it, unlike the younger less gargantuan wrestlers in his stable who are eating a lot to pack on weight.
    Japan_JAP_060628_591_xw.jpg
  • Takeuchi Masato (ring name Miyabiyama) makes a handprint during a break at pre-tournment practice in Nagoya,  Japan.  The prints are given to fans and sponsors. (Takeuchi Masato is featured in the book What I Eat, Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in June was 3500 kcals.  He is one of the largest of the Japanese sumos and would probably have moved up even further in the ranks had he not suffered a severe shoulder injury. He is only just now returning to matches. MODEL RELEASED.
    Japan_JAP_060628_403_xw.jpg
  • Vendors prepare to sell breakfast at a street corner in Shanghai, China.
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  • Ernie Johnson, a finish carpenter and paddle surfer, with his typical day's worth of food near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 3500 kcals. He is 45 years of age; 5 feet, 10 inches tall; and 165 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
    TAI_110327_031_x.jpg
  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
    TAI_110327_021_x.jpg
  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
    TAI_110326_273_x.jpg
  • USA_SFOL_10_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
    USA_SFOL_10_xs.jpg
  • USA_SFOL_03_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
    USA_SFOL_03_xs.jpg
  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
    USA_100926_86_x.jpg
  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
    USA_100926_61_x.jpg
  • Art installation 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.
    USA_BMAN_46a_xs.jpg
  • Ed from London was painted blue with top hat and sunglasses 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.
    USA_BMAN_38_xs.jpg
  • 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..A woman wearing sunflowers holds an umbrella to guard against the desert sun. Her companion wears a skirt made of pornographic homosexual playing cards.
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  • Rafting on the Truckee River downstream from Lake Tahoe, CA
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_CA_ES_56_xs.jpg
  • Bouldering below Dead Man's Summit, on Route 395, Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • San Telmo
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Mekong River at sunset in Luang Prabang, Laos. From Chomphet District across the river.
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  • Mekong River at Ban Saylom, south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Mekong River at Ban Saylom, south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their house.
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  • Antonio Suarez's parrot bites his ear at a rest stop on the road to Chetumal, Mexico.
    MEX_113_xs.jpg
  • A younger member of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) with a handprint (tegata) on his chest during practice in Nagoya, Japan before a tournament. The handprint is used a an autograph by wrestlers of higher ranks.   The prints are given to fans and sponsors on sheets of rice paper. Miyabiyama put his hand on this young team member's chest at the end of an autographing session as a joke.
    Japan_JAP_060628_440_xw.jpg
  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
    TAI_110327_002_x.jpg
  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
    TAI_110326_216_x.jpg
  • USA_SFOL_12_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
    USA_SFOL_12_xs.jpg
  • USA_SFOL_06_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
    USA_SFOL_06_xs.jpg
  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
    USA_100926_83_x.jpg
  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
    USA_100926_60_x.jpg
  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
    USA_100926_31_x.jpg
  • Death Valley. Skateboarding in July from Zabriskie Point to Badwater. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_DSRT_04_xs.jpg
  • USA_080913_052_x.jpg
  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_CA_ES_55_xs.jpg
  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120128_187_x.jpg
  • Kayaking on the Nam Khan River near Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120126_070_x.jpg
  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their home.
    ECU_01_xs.jpg
  • Jungle logging camp near Sawa Village in the Asmat swamp of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • A chicle camp in Xpujil, Campeche Mexico. Chicle is a tree, and the main ingredient in traditional chewing gum. The sap is collected by chicleros working in the jungle. Here blocks of chicle are stacked by a dirt airstrip ready to be shipped out.
    MEX_034_xs.jpg
  • Wrestlers of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya): the members of Miyabiyama's Sumo Team cook and eat together while practicing for a tournament in Nagoya. The younger ones do most of the work. Sumos cook and eat chanko nabe, a stew pot of vegetable and meat or fish, at nearly every meal. It  is eaten with copious amounts of rice and numerous side dishes. Miyabiyama eats now to maintain his weight rather than to gain it, unlike the younger less gargantuan wrestlers in his stable who are eating a lot to pack on weight.
    Japan_JAP_060628_583_xw.jpg
  • Takeuchi Masato (ring name Miyabiyama) is swamped by the press during a break at pre-tournment practice in Nagoya,  Japan.  (Takeuchi Masato is featured in the book What I Eat, Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in June was 3500 kcals.  He is one of the largest of the Japanese Sumos and would probably have moved up even further in the ranks had he not suffered a severe shoulder injury. He is only just now returning to matches. MODEL RELEASED.
    Japan_JAP_060628_365_xw.jpg

Peter Menzel Photography

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