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Ridge-top home overlooking layered mountains, Madagascar
Men carrying a pig stuffed with potatoes, freshly cooked, Papua New Guinea
Village on the river in the southern highlands, Madagascar
Butchering a crocodile on banana leaves by lamplight, Papua New Guinea
Portrait of a young woman coffee seller in Mahajuna, Madagascar
Boats moored for the night in Varanasi, India
Late afternoon between the houses in the southern highlands, Madagascar
Woman leaning on log, Papua New Guinea
Village overlooking terraced rice paddies, Madagascar
Varanasi, , India
Rice terraces in the central highlands, Madagascar
Men in Calcutta, India
Bara men resting under a tree, Madagascar
Elderly man with bicycle beside mud-brick wall, Tajikistan
Woman on the balcony of a brick house in southern, Madagascar
Family portrait, Papua New Guinea
River winding through a cloud-shrouded valley, Madagascar
Woman stepping out from behind the old truck in Murghob, Tajikistan
Girl carrying nested baskets on her head in the southern highlands, Madagascar
A 'mumu' at night, women cut up a cooked pig to hand out, Papua New Guinea
Terraced rice fields in Andringitra National Park, Madagascar
Street bath near the mosque in Calcutta, India
Androy family gathered outside their home, Madagascar
Man at a doorway between whitewashed courtyard walls, mountains beyond, Tajikistan
Village beneath low clouds in the southern highlands, Madagascar
Man at a village trade store window, Papua New Guinea
A river winds through the southern highlands, Madagascar
Morning traffic through the market street, India
Mikea hunter-gatherers roasting roots over an open fire, Madagascar
Two boys riding an electric motorbike down a dusty village road, Tajikistan
Mother carrying baby and supplies on the way home in the southern highlands, Madagascar
Stocked shelves on a corner store, India
Carrying water in the southern highlands, Madagascar
Boy sitting with marbles and playing cards, Papua New Guinea
Woman carrying her child in a wrap, Madagascar
Woman in front of her horse, Kyrgyzstan
Patchwork of terraced fields in the highlands, Madagascar
Kids in the ocean, Papua New Guinea
Red hills and a river winding through the southern highlands, Madagascar
Pilgrims gathered beneath umbrellas on the ghats in Varanasi, India
Brick houses above the rice terraces in Andringitra National Park, Madagascar
Crossroads in Murghob, Tajikistan
Row of traditional homes below a rocky peak, Madagascar
A smoke break at the corner shop in Calcutta, India
Bara woman with a rifle inside her home with her baby, Madagascar
Before butchering a speared crocodile, Papua New Guinea
Southern highlands countryside on the RN7, Madagascar
Eating bread and sweets on Eid al-Adha, Tajikistan
Traditional homes along a hilltop ridge, Madagascar
Bookseller among stacks of paperbacks, India
Golden rice field below a hillside village, Madagascar
Boy swimming in still river water, Papua New Guinea
Bara men gathered in the shade, Madagascar
Woman smoking a pipe, Papua New Guinea
Homes in Andringitra National Park, Madagascar
Man in the doorway of his home, Tajikistan
Fog rolling over the highlands, Madagascar
Passing a riverside shrine in Varanasi, , India
Siblings backlit at dusk in the southern highlands, Madagascar
Father son and dogs walking, Papua New Guinea
River carving through a steep mountain valley, Madagascar
Men gathered for a meal of bread and sweets on Eid al-Adha, Tajikistan
Highland village below the mountains, Madagascar
Shopkeep, India
Androy family at the doorway, Madagascar
Man walking through Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Androy Woman and children bringing home honey, Madagascar
Portrait of an elder in a shell headdress in black and white, Papua New Guinea
Three Bara women with rifles, Madagascar
Porters hauling goods through the market in old Dehli, India
Children in a village alley at golden hour in the southern highlands, Madagascar
Eating bread and sweets on Eid al-Adha, Tajikistan
Village below a misty mountain in Andringitra National Park, Madagascar
Flower buds before dawn in Varanasi, India
Portrait of a man under the shade of a tree in western, Madagascar
Man maneuvers fishing net, Papua New Guinea
Terraced hillside village among granite boulders, Madagascar
Woman peering through a doorway in the highlands, Papua New Guinea
Laundry drying outside a thatched home in remote northern, Madagascar
Women in front of passing motorcycle, Pakistan
Street food vendors amid the crowd, Bangladesh
Massai making a fire, Tanzania
Mornings beneath the ghat umbrellas in Varanasi, India
Hadzabe hunter-gatherers starting the day's hunt, Tanzania
Family portrait in front of the mountains, Kazakhstan
Poultry market crew, Bangladesh
Men pausing on the market street, India
Bara woman weaving with raffia strands
Butchering a crocodile, Papua New Guinea
Butchers at the meat stall in Calcutta, India
Woman walking past eroded red hills in north-western, Madagascar
Clouds building over green farmland, Tanzania
Bedding seller resting in his shopfront, Bangladesh
Walking home past a mosque, cat trailing behind, Kazakhstan
Selling produce and smoking pipes, Papua New Guinea
Shopkeeper beneath a ceiling fan, India
Portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed hat in southern highlands, Madagascar
Biking home, Tajikistan
Kids playing along the riverbank by dugout canoes, Papua New Guinea
Fruit vendor with bananas, Bangladesh
Hadzabe hunter-gatherers Making fire, Tanzania
Man and his baby in front of their yurt, his wife approaches in the distance, Kyrgyzstan
Bara woman carrying a basket past homes, Madagascar
Massai man walking toward the village beneath a double rainbow, Tanzania
Woman selling produce on the islands, Papua New Guinea
Fish market under lights, Bangladesh
Shopkeeper, shelves stacked to the ceiling, India
Massai Herder with blade and walking stick, Tanzania
Another street scene in Murghob, Tajikistan
Classroom in the highlands, Papua New Guinea
Figures walking through terraced rice fields, Madagascar
A vendor turns to answer a question mid-sale, Bangladesh
Bookseller among his stacks, India
Hadzabe hunter-gatherers climbing a baobab for honey, Tanzania
Poultry at a market stall, Bangladesh
Village on the beach, Papua New Guinea
Sahdus smoking chillum before bed, the photo taken as the match is tossed, India
Issyk-Kul lake, Kyrgyzstan
Two young Bara men with rifles, Madagascar
Booksellers at night in Calcutta, India
Massai herder walking with his flock, Tanzania
Man wearing traditional hat, Tajikistan
Kids playing on old Japanese WWII relics, Papua New Guinea
Portrait landscape, Lesotho
Street scene on Hang Bo in Hanoi's Old Quarter, Vietnam
Portrait of a mechanic in his workshop, Bangladesh
Portrait of a Bara woman outside her home, Madagascar
Himba women around a fire, Namibia
Grandmother and child in a stilt-house kitchen in northern, Thailand
Moonrise over the boma in the Massai countryside, Tanzania
Portrait of a Bara woman with her rifle, Madagascar
Elderly woman smoking a pipe, Papua New Guinea
Rickshaw and bamboo cart loaded for the road, Bangladesh
Fruit vendor, Pakistan
Farmer stands amid freshly plowed fields under open sky, Botswana
Sorting through towers of books, India
Children playing outside a thatched home, Namibia
Three women seated above the valley, Rwanda
Woman in kitchen, family at home, Kazakhstan
Mother and child walking through rice paddies in the southern highlands, Madagascar
Adam and Eve print hanging inside a mud-walled home, Botswana
Paper sellers pause on the shop steps in Calcutta, India
Fish seller behind his morning catch, Bangladesh
Terraced hamlet scattered along a limestone karst valley, Vietnam
Rustling heard in the distance, Hadzabe hunter-gatherers and their dogs run towards the noise, Tanzania
Mother and child in a stilt house window, Papua New Guinea
Herdboy rests on a hillside beside grazing cattle, Lesotho
Motorbike passing a poster-plastered roadside shop, Uganda
Fish seller in between the lights, Bangladesh
Himba women tending a cooking fire in the village, Namibia
Rice terraces climbing the hillside village, Madagascar
Newsstand vendor reading the paper in Calcutta, India
Men hanging out on a terrace, Papua New Guinea
Cemetery crosses below a hillside chapel, Tanzania
Shopkeeper beneath a portrait of Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, Vietnam
Shepherd in his yurt, Kyrgyzstan
Himba village, Namibia
Portrait of a vendor beside cages, Bangladesh
An elder relaxing in Varanasi, India
Woman in a bright blanket outside her home, Lesotho
Dao family near Sapa, Vietnam
Saturday night party in the yurt, Mongolia
Grandmother and grandchildren under banana trees, Rwanda
Teacher silhouetted against a lesson on the whiteboard, Kenya
Group of men, Pakistan
Woman and baby, Papua New Guinea
Bara brothers, Madagascar
Bow and arrows left on the riverbank as the Hadzabe bathe, Tanzania
Landscape with dirt road and yurts, Mongolia
Rolling green hills, Rwanda
Elder bikes through his village, Tajikistan
Crowds filming fireworks through the palms on independence day, Singapore
Pouring Chai, India
Walking home at dusk through the cornfields, Zambia
Women walking with umbrellas, Lesotho
Kid in an abandoned home, Papua New Guinea
Himba woman smoking a goat leg pipe, Namibia
Group portrait of Bara men and one woman, Madagascar
Watermelon vendor making change, Bangladesh
Himba women and children by their home, Namibia
Carrying sacks along a terraced hillside path, Rwanda
Rainbow over the mountains after rain, Lesotho
Man in traditional hat, Pakistan
Three people and a sleeping dog in the archways in Bodh Gaya, India
Wedding attendees seated at the altar amid ceremonial offerings, Cambodia
Massai herder walking home along the path as goats graze beneath a double rainbow, Tanzania
Gulewamkulu at a funeral for a village chief, Malawi
Portrait of a man beside his home in the southern highlands, Madagascar
Groom on the day of his wedding, Mongolia
Butchering a crocodile, Papua New Guinea
Fruit vendor, Bangladesh
Massai man playing with his dogs at dusk, Tanzania
Sadhus sharing a meal by lamplight near Rishikesh, India
Elderly man in a traditional Kyrgyz felt hat, Kyrgyzstan
Canoes in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea
Rider hauling a huge bundle of palm fronds through dust, Uganda
A shopkeeper works above a crowded street, Bangladesh
Family portrait on the porch in northern, Madagascar
Herdboy standing before his cattle, Lesotho
Motorbike rider coming home, Vietnam
Guests gather around the table at a Uyghur wedding, China
Himba woman digging with children looking on, Namibia
BaTonga women smoking pipes, Zimbabwe
Gers along the river, Mongolia
Men playing game, Pakistan
Riding through the Baobab trees and wild flowers, Tanzania
Clouds building over a grazing herd, Mongolia
Village houses above the rice paddies in the southern highlands, Madagascar
Monks sharing a meal, a cat relaxing beneath the table, Cambodia
Inside a hardware stall stacked with paint in Lilongwe, Malawi
Monks chanting in a temple hall, China
Mud-brick homestead at dusk, smoke rising, Rwanda
Outside bar, Botswana
Shopkeeper standing in his gated doorway, Bangladesh
Thatched home under a pink sunset sky, Namibia
Sorting through stacks of notebooks in Calcutta, India
Family gathered around a table selling, Papua New Guinea
A boy holds a rearing horse steady, Mongolia
Woman selling on the islands off of the mainland, Papua New Guinea
Christian monks passing religious paintings in a village church, Uganda
Terraced fields on a green hillside, Zambia
Himba woman outside her hut at dusk, Namibia
Tea and bread shared over conversation during Eid al-Adha, Tajikistan
Massai herding goats below the escarpment, Tanzania
Sadhu smoking from chillum before bed near Rishikesh, India
Egg and chicken seller behind his counter, Bangladesh
Village terraced into karst hillsides, Vietnam
Duck seller seated among his cages in Yangshuo, China
Bara men gathered under a tree with a motorbike, Madagascar
Carrying loads home along a rocky path, Eswatini
Clouds building over distant hills, Mongolia
Portrait of a Bara man behind his rifle, Madagascar
Lighting a chillum with a match and throwing it as the photo is taken near Rishikesh, India
Inside the Massai village, Tanzania
Woman selling smoked fish at market with her baby there, Papua New Guinea
Busy streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Village beneath the mountains, Lesotho
Extended family gathers beneath a stilted bamboo house, Laos
Village in the mountains, Tajikistan
Himba woman eating in black and white, Namibia
Woman walking the shore of Lake Malawi, Malawi
Woman by a painted red gate, Rwanda
Noodle shop diner beneath a Mao portrait in Wuhan, China
Thatched village and grazing donkey below green peaks, Lesotho
Poultry seller, Bangladesh
Ash and smoke in Varanasi, India
Mountain range, Mongolia
Two men riding a motorcycle through town, Pakistan
Farms and rooftops tucked into the terraces, Rwanda
Children playing on an old WWII Japanese artillery gun, Papua New Guinea
Poultry vendor waiting behind cages of birds in Yangshuo, China
Two Massai men at the lakeshore, Tanzania
Maize drying above the Bara elder, Madagascar
Gulewamkulu waiting for their turn to perform at a funeral, Malawi
Portrait of an elderly woman in a gold necklace, Thailand
Portrait of a Himba woman by her home, Namibia
At a traditional 'mumu', Papua New Guinea
Beautiful skies at dusk, Zambia
Cassava and maize, Rwanda
Thumbs up from a chicken market vendor, Bangladesh
Zebras and wildebeest stampede across the Maasai Mara, Kenya
Woman in plaid coat and straw hat, hands on hips, Lesotho
Booksellers at dusk, India
Herrera women outside one of their homes, Namibia
Two elderly women standing in a doorway, Thailand
Father of the bride and father of the groom, Mongolia
Street traffic beneath limestone peaks and a pagoda in Yangshuo, China
Street scene in Murghob, Tajikistan
Rolling terraced valley beneath a big sky, Madagascar
Chatting through a window painted with fish, Thailand
Restaurant worker, India
Bread and butter in Pamir, Tajikistan
Massai village at dusk, Tanzania
Children walking through the village at sunset, Namibia
Portrait of a couple by their kitchen shelves, Nepal
Woman carrying a sack on her head, Rwanda
Monks filing past carved temple doors at dusk, China
Behind the stall, Papua New Guinea
Man sitting beneath a shade tree in a village courtyard, Botswana
Toy shop overflowing onto the street, Bangladesh
Herder walking home beneath a double rainbow, Mongolia
Gulewamkulu towers over mourners beside the coffin, Malawi
Portrait of a Bara woman with beaded necklaces, Madagascar
Invited in for milk; Curds drying by the stove, tea break, Mongolia
Seamstresses at work in a fabric stall, Tanzania
Car going down dirt road, Burundi
Himba woman with her baby, Namibia
Portrait of a man on his porch in northern, Madagascar
Men sort through bread and sweets while women enter from the back during Eid al-Adha, Tajikistan
Villagers pull a boat ashore together, Papua New Guinea
Fireworks over the water on independence day, Singapore
Village, Zambia
Herder driving cattle through a gate, Eswatini
Sorting through the morning's newspapers, India
Two men tending a fire against a brick wall, Nepal
Xingping, China
Warehouse office, Bangladesh
Massai herder pausing to watch a double rainbow over his flock, Tanzania
Sadhu perched over Varanasi, India
Herdboy pauses on a cliff above a wide valley, Lesotho
Crowd packed onto a truck bed during campaign season, Uganda
Herder among the livestock, Mongolia
Headmaster at his desk, Zambia
Family kneels in during wedding procession, Cambodia
Monk practices violin while another marks up sheet music, Madagascar
Himba woman carrying her child through her farm, Namibia
Bamboo rafts moored below Yangshuo's karst peaks, China
Mouths full of beetlenut, women at their stall selling, Papua New Guinea
Jagged peaks beneath storm clouds, Madagascar
Men butchering an animal, Nepal
Portrait of a chicken seller among his cages, Bangladesh
Grazing below the snowline in the Pamir mountain range, Tajikistan
Traditional homes overlooking a wide valley, Madagascar
Woman beside sugarcane stalks against the wall, Rwanda
Wide view of a village courtyard shaded by a large tree, Botswana
Boy on a bicycle with a puppy and chickens in the yard, Nepal
Himba woman, Namibia
Monks kneeling before a wall of Buddha portraits, Cambodia
Grass and mountains, Kyrgyzstan
Cooking popcorn over an open fire in a thatched kitchen, Zambia
Community members meet and greet with baby, Papua New Guinea
Monks reciting sutras among lotus cushions, China
A young monk rehearses violin beside towering gilded statues, Madagascar
A father's blessing before the wedding, Mongolia
Walking past shrines in Varanasi, India
Walking around the Massai countryside, Tanzania
Poultry seller minding his stall, Bangladesh
Ger door on the open steppe, Mongolia
Elder in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Men having a friendly argument, Pakistan
Woman in straw hat framed by a painted doorway, Lesotho
Gulewamkulu performing at a funeral, Malawi
Seated amid stacks of blank paper, India
Three Massai generations at sundown, Tanzania
Crowd gathers at a 'mumu', Papua New Guinea
Woman behind her goat, Nepal
Monks atop the mountains, China
Violin practice, Madagascar
Evening prayers beneath rows of Buddha images, Cambodia
A Himba family gathered under a rainbow, Namibia
Dusk in the garden, Rwanda
Shaded homes in the southern highlands, Madagascar
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