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  • Rattan: The village chief carefully examines and measures a rattan stick for suitability in the coming evenings Presean fighting that coincides with the celebration of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, Anyar Lombok Indonesia.<br />
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The fight is between two combatants, each armed with a rattan stick and shield, under the evening’s full moon.
    Rattan
  • Manual Mining: Men manually mine a muddy hillside for White Gold, near to Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Manual Mining
  • The Burden of Reality (B&W): A man continues his solitary, life-long and unchallenged station in life; with the unrelenting burden of fate, he finds himself wearing a wooden yoke hauling two pails of water down a nearly deserted market street, Nyaung U Myanmar.
    The Burden of Reality (B&W)
  • Morning Market: Women, with their meager offerings before them, stand in the morning market’s sunlight, Muang Sing Laos.
    Morning Market
  • Novice Monks: Rows of young boys kneel in prayer wearing white robes and each holds his new saffron robes as he starts the ordination ceremony to become a novice monk, Phra Mahathat Wat Nong Wang, Khon Kaen Thailand.
    Novice Monks
  • Safety Free: A demolition worker stands precariously on top of a wall, free of any safety precautions, wielding  a hammer against the very wall he is holding for balance and support, Hue Vietnam.
    Safety Free
  • The Ultimate Solution: Wall graffiti illustrates the execution of a person just as he has been shot by a gloating soldier, Bangkok Thailand.
    The Ultimate Solution
  • Young and Patient:  Two young Buddhist monks humour tourists and practiced both their patience and understanding; as they pose for foreigners of various ethnic origins, each with expensive camera equipment, Sitagu International Buddhist University, Sagaing-Mandalay, Myanmar.
    Young and Patient
  • Humility: In dawns early light elderly women pray on the sidewalk, pouring water in an act of purification, as they await giving alms to local Buddhist monks, Luang Prabang Laos.
    Humility
  • Men mine a muddy hillside by the most basic of means for White Gold, near to Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Modern Mining
  • Balian Ceremony: Underneath brightly coloured flags and umbrellas, a group of Hindu men and boys are clustered together on the beach during Melasti, or, purification, Balian Beach - Bali Indonesia.
    Balian Ceremony
  • Salt Warehouse: A salt worker returns to the salt-pan after depositing her load in a ram -shackled warehouse, near to  Kampot Cambodia.
    Salt Warehouse
  • Raked Salt: A woman, protected from the searing tropical heat, rakes salt into collectable piles, Kampot Cambodia.
    Raked Salt
  • Fog Walking: An eerie sense permeates this equally beautiful sight; an almost symmetric mirror image, as the artificial light splits the fog and plays with the morning dew, Saphan Mon Bridge, Sang Khla Buri Thailand.
    Fog Walking
  • The Burden of Reality: A man continues his solitary, life-long and unchallenged station in life;  with the unrelenting burden of fate he finds himself at another morning market wearing a wooden yoke, hauling two yellow pails of water down a nearly deserted street, Nyaung U Myanmar.
    The Burden of Reality
  • Boys & Girls (B&W&C): Two high school boys take time to gaze out from an iron gate, into the school yard and the numerous teenage girls within, which are clad in shorts and partaking in gym class, Cienfuegos Cuba.
    Boys & Girls (B&W&C)
  • Emerald Buddha: An intricately decorated Phra Mondop ( temple of the Emerald Buddha) with a bejewelled Emerald Buddha, surrounded by ornate depictions of heaven people, demons and buildings is on display on its golden throne in the Thai Imperial Grand Palace, Bangkok Thailand.
    Emerald Buddha
  • A Kind Salesman: A kind, smiling young artist, with his paintings at his feet, attempts a sale in the ruins of a Buddhist temple, Bagan Myanmar.
    A Kind Salesman
  • Clean Sweep: In the early morning an elderly man takes the time to sweep out an empty market stall, Cienfuegos Cuba.
    Clean Sweep
  • Salt: A shoeless woman collects the raked salt so it may be stored away , Kampot Cambodia.
    Salt
  • Friendship’s Crossroad: Morning and two Cuban men pause to greet the other, while still on bicycles, immediately over a bisecting railway line, Cienfuegos Cuba.
    Friendship’s Crossroad
  • Bon Voyage (B&W): A minimalist view of a mid-day ocean side dock, makes an abstract impression, Ko Muk Thailand.
    Bon Voyage (B&W)
  • Long Road (B&W):  A mother and her young, dirty family slowly traverse a hot dirt road home loaded down with water, Muang Sing Laos.
    Long Road (B&W)
  • Come and Get It: This example of street graffiti was found in a back alley and consists of a decal of a most attractive and provocatively dressed woman; in vinyl with high boots, squatting down with a hole suggestively punched into her genital area while holding two over sized guns, in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    Come and Get It
  • A Study: Viewed from the back, the silhouette of a woman is seen contemplating a large frame-less modern painting, Met Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA.
    A Study
  • Narasinga: During the parade for Nyepi ("Day of Silence" - hide from evil spirits), the Red Narasinga, a Hindu Ogohs Ogohs , or, demon and a  great devotee of Shiva, hoists a sword on high as he disembowels a man laid out on his knee, Balian Beach,  Bali Indonesia.
    Narasinga
  • Barefoot Porter: A young barefoot man uses a yoke to carry a multitude of large, soiled yellow containers down the road in an intense tropical heat, harbour side in Yangon Myanmar.
    Barefoot Porter
  • Safety?: A demolition worker is jack hammering concrete high on the exterior of a building, without the faintest consideration of safety precautions, Kampot Cambodia.
    Safety?
  • Painfully Bored: A group of traditionally dressed Cambodian dancers rest and amusing themselves in the shade of ancient ruins, the exception; a young man who looks to be both terribly bored and dejected, Bayon of Angkor Thom, Siem Reap Cambodia.
    Painfully Bored
  • Stupa Support: Blue faced, Demon monkey statues are dressed in a multi coloured traditional dress made of coloured mirrors and squat in front of and appear to hold up a golden Stupa, Imperial Grand Palace in Bangkok Thailand.
    Stupa Support
  • Muang Sing Market: A woman in traditional dress sells her meagre wares in the Muang Sing morning market, Laos.
    Muang Sing Market
  • Maulid Nabi Celebration: The village women in traditional dress, perform a harvest ceremony in which they pound rice in a long wooden vessel with bamboo poles and this also coincides with the celebration of  Maulid Nabi (the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday), Anyar Lombok Indonesia.
    Maulid Nabi Celebration
  • Rainbow Beach: A bold rainbow cuts the evening sky over-top of a tranquil, tropical beach scene as locals play amongst the oceans waves, Varadaro Cuba.
    Rainbow Beach
  • Catholic Stain:  In this statue, Fray Junipero Serra stands aside Juaneño (an Indian boy) and is found next to a large dark stain on the Basilica Menor de San Francisco de Asis; symbolic of the current sex scandal that taints the Catholic Church, in the plaza de San Francisco, Havana Cuba.
    Catholic Stain
  • Three's Company: Three cyclo (tricycle rickshaws) drivers taking a mid day rest from the heat, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    Three's Company
  • Sleep on the Street: A young man sleeps amongst the filth of the street, with only the thinnest of mats between himself and the concrete sidewalk, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Sleep on the Street
  • Salty Selfie: Salt workers pause for a photographic moment inside their warehouse, near Kampot Cambodia.
    Salty Selfie
  • Salt on the March: Salt workers working in stifling heat, walking shoe-less carrying the final product in bamboo baskets,  Kampot Cambodia.
    Salt on the March
  • Happily  Plastered: A young male construction worker casts out a happy smile as he rests perched on bamboo scaffolding right over top of hydro-electric wiring, in Bangkok Thailand.
    Happily Plastered
  • Buddhist Pilgrimage: A woman makes a solitary pilgrimage along a path strewn with prayer flags, to the Buddhist Dalai Lama Temple Complex that is nestled in the tranquil forests of McLeod-Ganj, India.
    Buddhist Pilgrimage
  • Catholic Stain (B&W):  Catholic Stain (B&W):  This statue portrays Fray Junipero Serra standing aside a near naked indigenous boy, Juaneño, while holding the cross and looking away from a large dark stain on the Basilica Menor de San Francisco de Asis; Emblematic of the current sex scandal that taints the Catholic Church, Plaza de San Francisco, Havana Cuba.
    Catholic Stain (B&W)
  • Long Road:  A mother and her young, dirty family slowly traverse a hot dirt road home loaded down with water, Muang Sing Laos.<br />
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    Long Road
  • Balinese Celebration: After parading through town, a Hindu priest leads the faithful in traditional dress, as they hoist brightly coloured umbrellas, banners, and offerings, to celebrate Melasti (the purification in the sea), Pemuteran Bali, Indonesia.
    Balinese Celebration
  • Desperation: A homeless man sits in amongst his few processions;  enveloped in the gloom of despair, to be utterly alone- in a deserted room,  Central Park, New York, New York USA.
    Desperation
  • Into the Darkness: Wat Suthatthepwararam is lined with a series of nearly identical, golden Buddhist statues that fade off into the darkness, Bangkok Thailand.
    Into the Darkness
  • Singapore Sleep: A man is found fast asleep on the stone walkway in the heart of the financial district, Singapore City, Singapore.
    Singapore Sleep
  • Mirror of Work: A young artist, hard at work, wears a new shirt that roughly mirrors the colours and patterns found in the brickwork that he occupies daily in Bagan, Mayanmar.
    Mirror of Work
  • Rice Harvest: The village women in their traditional dress, perform a harvest ceremony in which they pound rice in a long wooden vessel with bamboo poles, Anyar Lombok Indonesia.
    Rice Harvest
  • Train Waiting: A middle aged couple spend the hours waiting for a train sleeping on a sidewalk in Santiago de Cuba - Cuba.
    Train Waiting
  • Top Up-Bottom Down: In between beautifully restored antique automobiles - one with its top up, a French tourist drops her drawers (bottom down) to celebrate her last day of vacation and leaving for me an interesting view on life, Havana Cuba.
    Top Up - Bottom Down
  • Phone Call: A woman makes a telephone call beside a deep blue wall, with the line of the base of the wall and the shadow of the phone booth converge in the corner of the photograph, Cienfuegos Cuba.
    Phone Call
  • Hidden Despair: A dramatic painting that is both simplistic and simultaneously surrealistic as it conveys a profoundly sad commentary of a naked man and his hidden despair, Havana Cuba.
    Hidden Despair
  • Dark and Dirty: A man rests from his labours as he squats down in the street beside his charcoal filled  cart, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    Dark and Dirty
  • Boys & Girls: Two high school boys take time to gaze out from an iron gate, into the school yard and the numerous teenage girls within, which are clad in shorts and partaking in gym class, Cienfuegos Cuba.
    Boys & Girls
  • Clash of Culture: After attending the morning market, a local tribe’s woman in traditional dress stands bathed in the morning light alone at a street side corner, in stark contrast to the modern vehicles of a busy city, Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Clash of Culture
  • Friendship’s Crossroad (B&W): Morning and two Cuban men pause to greet the other, while still on bicycles, immediately over a bisecting railway line, Cienfuegos Cuba.
    Friendship’s Crossroad (B&W)
  • Golden Days' End: Bathed in the soft golden light of sunset, herdsmen guide their flock of goats through the arid fields of Bagan Myanmar that are strewn with holy Buddhist ruins comprised of  innumerable temples and Stupas.
    Golden Days' End
  • Morning Run: Morning and a man takes the opportunity to run beach-side across the white sands,  underneath the deep blue skies and next to the breath taking beautiful Caribbean water, Varadaro Cuba.
    Morning Run
  • Contrarian View: A Buddhist monk sitting on the edge of a temple takes a contrarian stance and so, rather than looking inwards like the other devotes, his gaze is outwards, directed at the foreigner across the marquee, Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon Myanmar.
    Contrarian View
  • Aka Harvest: In this ethnically distinct Aka village, the people are protected from evil spirits with warning symbols that guard the village’s entrance and the people eke out a subsistence living as shown by this Aka woman in traditional dress spreading out onions to dry in the sun, near to Muang Sing Laos.
    Aka Harvest
  • Whose Looking at Who?: A Caucasian man relaxes in a gallery, gazing at three photographs of coloured people trapped within the insurmountable social and economic barriers of a far removed existence, Chaing Mai Photo Club, Chiang Mai Thailand.
    Whose Looking at Who?
  • Mystical Thai Mural: An intricate and colourful wall mural depicting mythical creatures, in this case a bare breasted woman with a lower body of a bird, dressed in traditional Thai clothing, Tritotsathep Temple, Bangkok Thailand.<br />
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All around the woman are scenes of the country side including trees, a river and fields, also, another similar creature is in the upper aspect of the mural.
    Mystical Thai Mural
  • Working in Despair: A young shirtless construction worker without safety gear squats by a cement mixer and piles of rebar with the look of abject despair, Sanur - Bali Indonesia.
    Working in Despair
  • Varadaro Sunset: People meet to play in and out of the tropical waters, oblivious to the amazing sunset in the distance, Varadaro Cuba.
    Varadaro Sunset
  • Distain of the Street: Street life is often a culmination of economic and personal misfortune; captured in the silhouette of a man whose face is filled with distain, Havana Cuba.
    Distain of the Street
  • Roadside Prayer: A Muslim beggar deep in prayer, crouching roadside with his walking stick carefully placed before him, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Roadside Prayer
  • Seeing Double: Two dominate golden statues of Buddha sit, Lotus position in meditation, one in front of the other in Wat Bawan Niwet, Bangkok Thailand.
    Seeing Double
  • Third Class: Men stake out their spots for the long trip atop a fully loaded lorry, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Third Class
  • Inconsolable: A man sits inconsolably, on the side of the road, with his head in hand, Jammu India.
    Inconsolable
  • Friends: In the heart of their shanty town, two good friends stop to be photographed, Jammu India.
    Friends
  • Crossroads: A man squats down on a railway line that splits in two, deep in thought and given his demeanour, the choice of route seems to mimic his dilemma, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Crossroads
  • Forever Waiting: A man sits alone in his boat, resting, awaiting his next fare, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Forever Waiting
  • Crossroads (B&W): A man squats down on a railway line that splits in two, deep in thought and given his demeanour, the choice of route seems to mimic his internal dilemma, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Crossroads (B&W)
  • Home Street Home (B&W): A homeless man finds a moment’s sleep, using his flip flops as a pillow, on the stairs of a locked doorway, Wat Ounalom, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Home Street Home (B&W)
  • Morning Alms: Early morning on a dirt road that runs through a poor ram-shackled town, a row of five young monks accept alms in exchange for blessings, Nong Khiaw Laos.
    Morning Alms
  • Under the fiery golden sunset, herdsmen guide their flock of goats through arid fields that are strewn with innumerable holy Buddhist temples and Stupas, Bagan Myanmar.
    Golden Bagan
  • In Through the Out Door: A layered view leads one through the series of doors, stairs and passageways to the main temple at Wat Phantao, Chiang Mai Thailand.
    In Through the Out Door
  • Ferrari at Rest: A man wearing a Ferrari shirt rests in the early morning light, sitting precariously on the wooden poles of his rickshaw, Calcutta (Kolkata) India.
    Ferrari at Rest
  • Elderly and Alone: An elderly man sits in quiet reflection in a vacated part of the local market, with two chickens; the sum total of his life’s’ toil, Srimangal Bangladesh.
    Elderly and Alone
  • Clean Water  (B&W): A lady risks the garbage and filth to use a manual water pump and fill a container with water, Mymensingh Bangladesh.
    Clean Water (B&W)
  • Clean Water: A lady risks the garbage and filth to use a manual water pump and fill a container with water, Mymensingh Bangladesh.
    Clean Water
  • Water Carrier: A woman in traditional dress ventures out onto the street with a metal vase filled with water, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Water Carrier
  • Elderly and Alone (B&W):  An elderly man sits, in quiet reflection in a vacated part of the local market, with two chickens; the sum total of his life’s’ toil, Srimangal Bangladesh.
    Elderly and Alone (B&W)
  • Brothers' Pyjamas: Brothers are captured in their sleeping pyjamas and animal hats as they lounge in their homes’ doorway in Myinkaba Myanmar.
    Brothers' Pyjamas
  • Enthusiastic Contrarian: All eyes are to one side as fans intensely watch a football (soccer) game, save for one man, who wears an “I love Bali” muscle shirt and enthusiastically pumps his arms in celebration, Bayan Lombok Indonesia.
    Enthusiastic Contrarian
  • O’ Canada: A young woman in an obvious state of euphoria in downtown Vancouver, waves two Canadian flags over her head, right after Canadian Men’s Hockey team won Olympic Gold,  Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    O’ Canada
  • Prayer Beads: A bearded man, in traditional dress, holds his prayer beads as he squats down in Hazrat Shahjalal Mazar Sharif, Sylhet Bangladesh.
    Prayer Beads
  • Home Street Home: A homeless man finds a moment’s sleep, using his flip flops as a pillow, on the stairs of a locked doorway, Wat Ounalom, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Home Street Home
  • A female fish monger looks up from her work, peeking out from behind an oriental hat and handkerchief that otherwise covers her face, at the morning market in Ninh Binh Vietnam.
    Peeking
  • Dead Asleep (B&W): Dawn breaks over the Ganges River in holy Varanasi, where Hindus aspire to die and to the western eye, one is never left to the security of the familiar and a constant visceral assault will challenge ones senses and sensibilities; as in this scene where a sleeping street person, covered in a white blanket, takes on the suspected spectre of the dead, Varanasi India.
    Dead Asleep (B&W)
  • Batter's Up: A young man smiles in anticipation of batting the red ball being hurled his way, in this makeshift cricket pitch, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Batter's Up
  • Dead Asleep: Dawn breaks over the Ganges River in holy Varanasi, where Hindus aspire to die and to the western eye, one is never left to the security of the familiar as a constant visceral assault challenges ones senses and sensibilities; as in this scene where a sleeping street person, covered in a white blanket, takes on the suspected specter of the dead, Varanasi India.
    Dead Asleep
  • Trail of Misery: A trail of water leads one to a poor man laying face down on the concrete, Kolkata (Calcutta )India.
    Trail of Misery
  • Rest and Dread: A solitary man taking a smoke break squats and gazes down his dangerous, self made mining shaft, where his daily risks his life in search of white gold, near Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Rest and Dread
  • Out to Dry: Boats ply the river in front of a laundry, where rows of clothes are hung to dry on an industrial scale, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Out to Dry
  • Men Only: Amongst the smaller boats that ply the Buriganga River, a large wooden boat is fully loaded with only men, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Men Only
  • Cleansing Body and Soul: On the Ganges River one is never surprised to see the unexpected, such as these three Hindu women worshipers, in the midst of making offerings, sharing a small stairway with a man fully lathered and enjoying a bath, Varanasi India.
    Cleansing Body and Soul
  • Three Times Lucky (B&W&C):  Crouched over in a back alley, an anonymous young man leans intently towards his extended right arm, having a line of bleeding attempts; he injects yet again, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    Three Times Lucky (B&W&C)
  • Disgusting: A disgusting level of pollution lines the sandy shoreline adjacent to the market at Koh Kong Cambodia.
    Disgusting
  • Assi Ceremony: Evening finds Pandits (Hindu priests) performing the Hindu Aarti Ceremony -the “Agni Pooja” (Worship to Fire) in front of a huge crowd riverside. Standing atop of raised platforms and carrying on high the fire bearing vessels that serve as a link between this world & the spirit world, Assi Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Assi Ceremony
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