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SCY - Dying to Breathe
Dying to Breathe
China/Shaanxi/Henan/by Sim Chi Yin / VII/ personal project/2011-2013/
Mi Shixiu cradles He Quangui's head as he's struggling to breathe. . .He eventually recovers his breath. But in the wee hours of the next morning, he tried to kill himself to end the suffering.
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Dying to breathe: former gold miner He Quangui is slowing dying of silicosis - a irreversible but preventable disease he contracted from years of working in small, unregulated gold mines in the Henan province, central China. Ten years after he was diagnosed with silicosis, he is fighting for his life, fighting to keep breathing. In this illness, a type of pneumoconiosis - China's most prevalent occupational disease afflicting millions - silica dust sucked into the lungs during years of blasting rock causes the miner's lungs to harden and eventually fail. Workers who can get good health care and remove themselves from the harmful environment -- particularly those who worked for state mines -- can live a normal person's lifespan. But most of the growing number of victims in China today are migrant workers like Mr He, with no insurance, good healthcare or legal recourse. They typically die in their 30s, leaving families with no sole breadwinners, wives with no husbands, children without fathers.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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SCY - Dying to Breathe
Dying to Breathe
China/Shaanxi/Henan/by Sim Chi Yin / VII/ personal project/2011-2013/
Mi Shixiu cradles He Quangui's head as he's struggling to breathe. . .He eventually recovers his breath. But in the wee hours of the next morning, he tried to kill himself to end the suffering.
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Dying to breathe: former gold miner He Quangui is slowing dying of silicosis - a irreversible but preventable disease he contracted from years of working in small, unregulated gold mines in the Henan province, central China. Ten years after he was diagnosed with silicosis, he is fighting for his life, fighting to keep breathing. In this illness, a type of pneumoconiosis - China's most prevalent occupational disease afflicting millions - silica dust sucked into the lungs during years of blasting rock causes the miner's lungs to harden and eventually fail. Workers who can get good health care and remove themselves from the harmful environment -- particularly those who worked for state mines -- can live a normal person's lifespan. But most of the growing number of victims in China today are migrant workers like Mr He, with no insurance, good healthcare or legal recourse. They typically die in their 30s, leaving families with no sole breadwinners, wives with no husbands, children without fathers.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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6633
SCY - Chinese Beach Culture
Chinese Beach Culture
Chinese sunbathers and swimmers enjoy an afternoon of sun at one of several public beaches in Qingdao, China, July 26, 2012. Some were hiding under umbrellas while some women bathers were wearing masks made out of bathing suit material over their heads, to ward off the sun.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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SCY - Chinese Beach Culture
Chinese Beach Culture
Chinese sunbathers and swimmers enjoy an afternoon of sun at one of several public beaches in Qingdao, China, July 26, 2012. Some were hiding under umbrellas while some women bathers were wearing masks made out of bathing suit material over their heads, to ward off the sun.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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6634
SCY - China in Transition Final
China in transition
A young woman waits for the bus at an intersection on the main road in Dongling, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China on Oct. 30, 2012. Like most other parts of rural China, Dongling village is almost bereft of young people who leave to become migrant workers in the cities and towns, leaving the old and very young behind. Anhui Province is amongst the largest exporter of migrant labor in China. Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier-to-be was sent to Dongling in the 1970s to be rusticated.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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SCY - China in Transition Final
China in transition
A young woman waits for the bus at an intersection on the main road in Dongling, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China on Oct. 30, 2012. Like most other parts of rural China, Dongling village is almost bereft of young people who leave to become migrant workers in the cities and towns, leaving the old and very young behind. Anhui Province is amongst the largest exporter of migrant labor in China. Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier-to-be was sent to Dongling in the 1970s to be rusticated.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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6635
SCY - China's Rat Tribe
Rat Tribe
Twenty-three-year-old He Bing tries on his new shirt and borrowed suit and tie for size the night before an examination to become an insurance salesman, Beijing, China, March 10, 2011. Bing recently arrived to Beijing from Chongqing City, moving into a central Beijing basement room that he shares with two others. Faced with sky-high property prices, living underground is often the only option for this legion of low-waged migrant workers, who make up one-third of Beijing?s estimated 20 million people.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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SCY - China's Rat Tribe
Rat Tribe
Twenty-three-year-old He Bing tries on his new shirt and borrowed suit and tie for size the night before an examination to become an insurance salesman, Beijing, China, March 10, 2011. Bing recently arrived to Beijing from Chongqing City, moving into a central Beijing basement room that he shares with two others. Faced with sky-high property prices, living underground is often the only option for this legion of low-waged migrant workers, who make up one-third of Beijing?s estimated 20 million people.
© Sim Chi Yin / VII
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6654
6654
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6640
AA - Displaced Yazidis
Displaced Yazidis
Aamir carries his wife Ghazala on his shoulder due to her weakened state from hunger and dehydration as they cross into Kurdistan, by way of the Syrian border in Faysh Khabur, Zakho, Iraq on Aug. 9, 2014.
© Ali Arkady / VII Mentor Program
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AA - Displaced Yazidis
Displaced Yazidis
Aamir carries his wife Ghazala on his shoulder due to her weakened state from hunger and dehydration as they cross into Kurdistan, by way of the Syrian border in Faysh Khabur, Zakho, Iraq on Aug. 9, 2014.
© Ali Arkady / VII Mentor Program
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6653
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6642
LD - Maysa
Maysa
Luana decided she also wants be a model.
Brasilandia, Sao Paulo / SP - Brazil
Date: 02/08/2015
©luisadorr
© Luisa Dorr / VII Mentor Program
6642
LD - Maysa
Maysa
Luana decided she also wants be a model.
Brasilandia, Sao Paulo / SP - Brazil
Date: 02/08/2015
©luisadorr
© Luisa Dorr / VII Mentor Program
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6652
6652
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6613
EY - November is Beginning
November is Beginning
A dog walks on a rooftop near S¸leymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, March 2015.
S¸leymaniye is a district in Istanbul known as a place that is settled by Syrian refugees. While only a tenth of Syrians in Turkey live in camps, the rest have settled in cities.
© Esa Ylijaasko / VII Mentor Program
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EY - November is Beginning
November is Beginning
A dog walks on a rooftop near S¸leymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, March 2015.
S¸leymaniye is a district in Istanbul known as a place that is settled by Syrian refugees. While only a tenth of Syrians in Turkey live in camps, the rest have settled in cities.
© Esa Ylijaasko / VII Mentor Program
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6651
6651
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6647
SP - What Remains
What Remains
It was in the afternoon.I was sitting on my grandpa?s couch. The door was slightly open and I saw light coming through, washed out between the white door and white walls. All of a sudden it all started making sense. I could relate what I was seeing with what I felt. John and Prova, my grandparents. While growing up, I found much love and care from them. They were young and strong. As time went by it shaped everything in it?s own way. Bodies took different forms and relations went distant. Grandma?s hair turned gray, the walls started peeling off and the objects were all that remained. Everything was contained into one single room. They always loved the fact that I take pictures of them, because then I spend more time with them and they don?t feel lonely anymore. After Prova passed away, I try to visit more so John can talk. He tells me stories of their early life, and how they met. There are so many stories. Here, life is silent, suspended. Everything is on a wait. A wait for something that I don?t completely understand?
© Sarker Protick / VII
6647
SP - What Remains
What Remains
It was in the afternoon.I was sitting on my grandpa?s couch. The door was slightly open and I saw light coming through, washed out between the white door and white walls. All of a sudden it all started making sense. I could relate what I was seeing with what I felt. John and Prova, my grandparents. While growing up, I found much love and care from them. They were young and strong. As time went by it shaped everything in it?s own way. Bodies took different forms and relations went distant. Grandma?s hair turned gray, the walls started peeling off and the objects were all that remained. Everything was contained into one single room. They always loved the fact that I take pictures of them, because then I spend more time with them and they don?t feel lonely anymore. After Prova passed away, I try to visit more so John can talk. He tells me stories of their early life, and how they met. There are so many stories. Here, life is silent, suspended. Everything is on a wait. A wait for something that I don?t completely understand?
© Sarker Protick / VII
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6648
SP - River and Lost Lands
Of River and Lost Lands
The relationship between man and river; It?s intimate and it?s ruthless. For generations people live by it. We find dependency and destruction at the same time. It?s a contradictory affair. The river gives so much to its people and at times it takes away everything. In the winter of 2011, I travelled to the villages near Ishurdi district. Padma, the largest waterway of Bangladesh flows right beside. At first the place seems abandoned. Drowned and broken houses, floating trees are all that remains. These are traces of life that was once here. Slowly I discover life in the villages. People who are still living here, many as refugee in others land. They have lost their house, farmlands almost everything. Some has left the places as they ran out of all the options. Over the years the river changed it?s course. While doing it, it has taken so many. When the monsoon arrives and the river runs fast. The lands get washed away and disappear. Riverbank erosion generally creates much more suffering than other natural hazards like flooding; as while flooding routinely destroys crops and damages property, erosion results in loss of farm and homestead land. Places I have photographed do not exist any more. But these people are sill living around the river. Often they go out and stand by the river and some rest by the riverbank. They look far away. Its not clear what do they look at. River erosion still continues with dire consequences for this land and community.
© Sarker Protick / VII
6648
SP - River and Lost Lands
Of River and Lost Lands
The relationship between man and river; It?s intimate and it?s ruthless. For generations people live by it. We find dependency and destruction at the same time. It?s a contradictory affair. The river gives so much to its people and at times it takes away everything. In the winter of 2011, I travelled to the villages near Ishurdi district. Padma, the largest waterway of Bangladesh flows right beside. At first the place seems abandoned. Drowned and broken houses, floating trees are all that remains. These are traces of life that was once here. Slowly I discover life in the villages. People who are still living here, many as refugee in others land. They have lost their house, farmlands almost everything. Some has left the places as they ran out of all the options. Over the years the river changed it?s course. While doing it, it has taken so many. When the monsoon arrives and the river runs fast. The lands get washed away and disappear. Riverbank erosion generally creates much more suffering than other natural hazards like flooding; as while flooding routinely destroys crops and damages property, erosion results in loss of farm and homestead land. Places I have photographed do not exist any more. But these people are sill living around the river. Often they go out and stand by the river and some rest by the riverbank. They look far away. Its not clear what do they look at. River erosion still continues with dire consequences for this land and community.
© Sarker Protick / VII
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6649
SP - River and Lost Lands
Of River and Lost Lands
The relationship between man and river; It?s intimate and it?s ruthless. For generations people live by it. We find dependency and destruction at the same time. It?s a contradictory affair. The river gives so much to its people and at times it takes away everything. In the winter of 2011, I travelled to the villages near Ishurdi district. Padma, the largest waterway of Bangladesh flows right beside. At first the place seems abandoned. Drowned and broken houses, floating trees are all that remains. These are traces of life that was once here. Slowly I discover life in the villages. People who are still living here, many as refugee in others land. They have lost their house, farmlands almost everything. Some has left the places as they ran out of all the options. Over the years the river changed it?s course. While doing it, it has taken so many. When the monsoon arrives and the river runs fast. The lands get washed away and disappear. Riverbank erosion generally creates much more suffering than other natural hazards like flooding; as while flooding routinely destroys crops and damages property, erosion results in loss of farm and homestead land. Places I have photographed do not exist any more. But these people are sill living around the river. Often they go out and stand by the river and some rest by the riverbank. They look far away. Its not clear what do they look at. River erosion still continues with dire consequences for this land and community.
© Sarker Protick / VII
6649
SP - River and Lost Lands
Of River and Lost Lands
The relationship between man and river; It?s intimate and it?s ruthless. For generations people live by it. We find dependency and destruction at the same time. It?s a contradictory affair. The river gives so much to its people and at times it takes away everything. In the winter of 2011, I travelled to the villages near Ishurdi district. Padma, the largest waterway of Bangladesh flows right beside. At first the place seems abandoned. Drowned and broken houses, floating trees are all that remains. These are traces of life that was once here. Slowly I discover life in the villages. People who are still living here, many as refugee in others land. They have lost their house, farmlands almost everything. Some has left the places as they ran out of all the options. Over the years the river changed it?s course. While doing it, it has taken so many. When the monsoon arrives and the river runs fast. The lands get washed away and disappear. Riverbank erosion generally creates much more suffering than other natural hazards like flooding; as while flooding routinely destroys crops and damages property, erosion results in loss of farm and homestead land. Places I have photographed do not exist any more. But these people are sill living around the river. Often they go out and stand by the river and some rest by the riverbank. They look far away. Its not clear what do they look at. River erosion still continues with dire consequences for this land and community.
© Sarker Protick / VII
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SP - Light
Light
© Sarker Protick / VII
17/05/2015 6650
17/05/2015
SP - Light
Light
© Sarker Protick / VII
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SDL - Trafic of endangered species
Colonel Tahir Adoum Orgui (seated) leads the mobile brigade against poaching: this paramilitary group of 400 men was created in Chad to stop the extension of wild animals trafic.
01/06/2016 6636
01/06/2016
SDL - Trafic of endangered species
Colonel Tahir Adoum Orgui (seated) leads the mobile brigade against poaching: this paramilitary group of 400 men was created in Chad to stop the extension of wild animals trafic.
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SDL - Dancer, Verona
Dancer in a school of dance in Verona
February 2005 Italy
© Stefano de Luigi/VII
01/02/2005 6637
01/02/2005
SDL - Dancer, Verona
Dancer in a school of dance in Verona
February 2005 Italy
© Stefano de Luigi/VII
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6638
SDL - Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Bougourë , December 2005 - Horse races during the festivity for the end of the harvest time (rassandaga )
© Stefano De Luigi / VII
01/12/2005 6638
01/12/2005
SDL - Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Bougourë , December 2005 - Horse races during the festivity for the end of the harvest time (rassandaga )
© Stefano De Luigi / VII
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6639
SDL - Liu Bolin
Liu Bolin
The Chinese artist Liu Bolin, 39 years old, is seen during a performance at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy, April 20, 2010. Liu, originally from Shandong, camouflage's himself with paint to disappear into a surrounding, a form of protest against his government's treatment of artists, inspired by feeling dispensable or neglected.
© Stefano De Luigi / VII
20/04/2010 6639
20/04/2010
SDL - Liu Bolin
Liu Bolin
The Chinese artist Liu Bolin, 39 years old, is seen during a performance at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy, April 20, 2010. Liu, originally from Shandong, camouflage's himself with paint to disappear into a surrounding, a form of protest against his government's treatment of artists, inspired by feeling dispensable or neglected.
© Stefano De Luigi / VII
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6630
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6643
MN - Catholic Poland
Catholic Poland
A statue of Jesus is seen through the fog in Swiebodzin, Poland, Nov. 21, 2011. Initially announced as the world's largest statue of Jesus Christ, exceeding Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer, it lost the title in June of 2011 to one built in Peru.
© Maciek Nabrdalik / VII
21/11/2011 6643
21/11/2011
MN - Catholic Poland
Catholic Poland
A statue of Jesus is seen through the fog in Swiebodzin, Poland, Nov. 21, 2011. Initially announced as the world's largest statue of Jesus Christ, exceeding Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer, it lost the title in June of 2011 to one built in Peru.
© Maciek Nabrdalik / VII
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6644
MN - Transphere
Transphere
Edyta Bauman, a contestant of the 2nd Polish Miss Trans Beauty Contest in Warsaw, Poland on Jun. 2, 2012. The contestants were transsexual, transgender, and transvestite persons.
Self-introduction: My name is Edyta. I am from Pozna?. A girl up for grabs - everyone?s welcome! You can get my phone number later.
Jury: Edyta, if you were to choose between sneakers, high heels, and valenki, what would you choose?
Edyta: Definitely high heels. They are sexy and I feel great in high heels.
© Maciek Nabrdalik / VII
02/06/2012 6644
02/06/2012
MN - Transphere
Transphere
Edyta Bauman, a contestant of the 2nd Polish Miss Trans Beauty Contest in Warsaw, Poland on Jun. 2, 2012. The contestants were transsexual, transgender, and transvestite persons.
Self-introduction: My name is Edyta. I am from Pozna?. A girl up for grabs - everyone?s welcome! You can get my phone number later.
Jury: Edyta, if you were to choose between sneakers, high heels, and valenki, what would you choose?
Edyta: Definitely high heels. They are sexy and I feel great in high heels.
© Maciek Nabrdalik / VII
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6645
MN - Chernobyl's Outskirts
Chernobul's outskirts
Nyna Vasylyevna Kurynoy informs relatives about the death of her mother in law, Ulyana Prokopovna, 96, the oldest woman in Straholesie, near Chernobyl's exclusion zone, Ukraine, Sept. 28, 2010.
© Maciek Nabrdalik / VII
28/09/2010 6645
28/09/2010
MN - Chernobyl's Outskirts
Chernobul's outskirts
Nyna Vasylyevna Kurynoy informs relatives about the death of her mother in law, Ulyana Prokopovna, 96, the oldest woman in Straholesie, near Chernobyl's exclusion zone, Ukraine, Sept. 28, 2010.
© Maciek Nabrdalik / VII
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6646
MN - The Irreversible
The Irreversible
Jerzy Ulatowski, KL Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor
© Maciek Nabrdalik / VII
30/04/2009 6646
30/04/2009
MN - The Irreversible
The Irreversible
Jerzy Ulatowski, KL Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor
© Maciek Nabrdalik / VII
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6629
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6641
LBE - The Valleys
The Valleys
Rhondda Valley, South Wales. Kathrine and Amy are best friends. They feel that life in the Valleys is rough and they both want to leave after finishing University.
© Linda Engelberth / VII Mentor Program
21/06/2016 6641
21/06/2016
LBE - The Valleys
The Valleys
Rhondda Valley, South Wales. Kathrine and Amy are best friends. They feel that life in the Valleys is rough and they both want to leave after finishing University.
© Linda Engelberth / VII Mentor Program
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6601
JBH - The Firm
Mickey Goldtooth's clutches his girlfriend Maria's bottom, as her knickers show through the flimsy dress fabric, in Playa de las Americas, Tenerife, Spain on Feb. 26, 1999.
© Jocelyn Bain Hogg / VII
26/02/1999 6601
26/02/1999
JBH - The Firm
Mickey Goldtooth's clutches his girlfriend Maria's bottom, as her knickers show through the flimsy dress fabric, in Playa de las Americas, Tenerife, Spain on Feb. 26, 1999.
© Jocelyn Bain Hogg / VII
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6602
JBH - Idols and Believers
Idols and Believers
Angelina Jolie gazes ahead icily, cocooned in the back of her limo, flanked by massed fans and press, on the way to the movie premiere of Shrek 2 in Cannes, France in May 2004.
© Jocelyn Bain Hogg / VII
01/05/2004 6602
01/05/2004
JBH - Idols and Believers
Idols and Believers
Angelina Jolie gazes ahead icily, cocooned in the back of her limo, flanked by massed fans and press, on the way to the movie premiere of Shrek 2 in Cannes, France in May 2004.
© Jocelyn Bain Hogg / VII
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6603
JBH - Pleasure Island
Pleasure Island
A naked transsexual attracts a tourist at Manumission's Coco Loco bar in Ibiza, Spain in August 2006.
© Jocelyn Bain Hogg / VII
01/08/2006 6603
01/08/2006
JBH - Pleasure Island
Pleasure Island
A naked transsexual attracts a tourist at Manumission's Coco Loco bar in Ibiza, Spain in August 2006.
© Jocelyn Bain Hogg / VII
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6604
JBH - The Family
The Family
Dave Thirston and Warren Pyle, of the Pyle organized-crime family, are seen at an unlicensed boxing match in Surrey County, England on Aug. 1, 2011.
© Jocelyn Bain Hogg / VII
01/08/2011 6604
01/08/2011
JBH - The Family
The Family
Dave Thirston and Warren Pyle, of the Pyle organized-crime family, are seen at an unlicensed boxing match in Surrey County, England on Aug. 1, 2011.
© Jocelyn Bain Hogg / VII
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6627
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6614
JL - Cheerleaders
Cheerleaders
Members of the University of Kentucky cheerleading squad practicing their routine on their Lexington campus grounds in Kentucky, United States, Aug. 23, 2005. There are an estimated 3 million cheerleaders in the U.S. and cheerleading is a staple of American high school and collegiate sports. The University of Kentucky cheerleading squad is the best in the country; the team has won the national championships 14 times in the past 20 years.
Photo by: Joachim Ladefoged / VII
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
23/08/2005 6614
23/08/2005
JL - Cheerleaders
Cheerleaders
Members of the University of Kentucky cheerleading squad practicing their routine on their Lexington campus grounds in Kentucky, United States, Aug. 23, 2005. There are an estimated 3 million cheerleaders in the U.S. and cheerleading is a staple of American high school and collegiate sports. The University of Kentucky cheerleading squad is the best in the country; the team has won the national championships 14 times in the past 20 years.
Photo by: Joachim Ladefoged / VII
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
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6615
JL - The Albanians
The Albanians
A young Kosovar Albanian boy jumps into an artificial lake outside Gnijljane, Kosovo, June 25, 1999. After the 1997 collapse of Albania's economy, widespread looting and ethnic conflict broke out in Kosovo, a majority Albanian province in southern Serbia, which led to the mass exodus of thousands of ethnic Albanians in 1998 and early 1999; nearly all of these 850,000 refugees returned to Kosovo starting in mid-1999, many seeking revenge against the Serbs.
Photo by: Joachim Ladefoged / VII
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
25/06/1997 6615
25/06/1997
JL - The Albanians
The Albanians
A young Kosovar Albanian boy jumps into an artificial lake outside Gnijljane, Kosovo, June 25, 1999. After the 1997 collapse of Albania's economy, widespread looting and ethnic conflict broke out in Kosovo, a majority Albanian province in southern Serbia, which led to the mass exodus of thousands of ethnic Albanians in 1998 and early 1999; nearly all of these 850,000 refugees returned to Kosovo starting in mid-1999, many seeking revenge against the Serbs.
Photo by: Joachim Ladefoged / VII
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
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6616
JL - Sex Workers, Congo
Congo: Sex Workers
A portrait of a sex worker under her mosquito net in her bedroom in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, Aug. 15, 2005. She shares a tiny compound in Kinshasa with eight other prostitutes; here they live, eat, sleep and have sex with their clients.
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
15/08/2005 6616
15/08/2005
JL - Sex Workers, Congo
Congo: Sex Workers
A portrait of a sex worker under her mosquito net in her bedroom in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, Aug. 15, 2005. She shares a tiny compound in Kinshasa with eight other prostitutes; here they live, eat, sleep and have sex with their clients.
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
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6617
JL - Mirror
Bodybuilding
Contestants at the Danish Bodybuilding Championships in Roskilde, May 5, 2001. The world of bodybuilding is, for some, a surreal vaudeville sideshow. For its participants it is a passionate way of life.
Through the months and years of training there have been many sacrifices; no alcohol, no sweets, and no fatty foods. At the championships, image is the only thing that counts. Many of the bodybuilders have not eaten any salt for the past week. Salt attracts water, and it is vital that the muscles contain no water what-so-ever. A day before the judging the competitors eat rice cookies and take energy drinks laced with vodka. The cookies suck the last drops of water from our muscles, the alcohol makes the blood run faster and the veins look bigger.
To look good on stage they wear a tanning cream, in order for the shadows to be seen more clearly. This has to be done five times to achieve the correct colour. As each coat takes thirty minutes to apply, many of the competitors sleep with the fake sun tan.
In the final hours before the judging begins, the bodybuilders gather in the basement. The atmosphere is tense and the air is thick with sweat and the musty smell of cocoa oil used to add shine to naked flesh.
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
05/05/2001 6617
05/05/2001
JL - Mirror
Bodybuilding
Contestants at the Danish Bodybuilding Championships in Roskilde, May 5, 2001. The world of bodybuilding is, for some, a surreal vaudeville sideshow. For its participants it is a passionate way of life.
Through the months and years of training there have been many sacrifices; no alcohol, no sweets, and no fatty foods. At the championships, image is the only thing that counts. Many of the bodybuilders have not eaten any salt for the past week. Salt attracts water, and it is vital that the muscles contain no water what-so-ever. A day before the judging the competitors eat rice cookies and take energy drinks laced with vodka. The cookies suck the last drops of water from our muscles, the alcohol makes the blood run faster and the veins look bigger.
To look good on stage they wear a tanning cream, in order for the shadows to be seen more clearly. This has to be done five times to achieve the correct colour. As each coat takes thirty minutes to apply, many of the competitors sleep with the fake sun tan.
In the final hours before the judging begins, the bodybuilders gather in the basement. The atmosphere is tense and the air is thick with sweat and the musty smell of cocoa oil used to add shine to naked flesh.
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII
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6624
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6609
DWF - Driftness
Driftless
A young girl dreams of becoming a summer festival queen like her older sister, Conesville, Iowa. (2003)
© Danny Wilcox Frazier / VII
01/01/2003 6609
01/01/2003
DWF - Driftness
Driftless
A young girl dreams of becoming a summer festival queen like her older sister, Conesville, Iowa. (2003)
© Danny Wilcox Frazier / VII
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6610
DWF - Lockdown Inc. (The Republican National Convention)
Republican National Convention
Celebrations after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
LOCKDOWN: The Republican National Convention transformed downtown Cleveland into a maze of steel and concrete barriers constructed to protect Quicken Loans Arena from assault or protest. Law enforcement on bikes, horseback and in rapid response squads occupied much of the city. Side streets appeared empty and many restaurants and bars were quiet. In places, downtown Cleveland felt void of life, the lockdown scaring all but the most faithful away.
Inside the convention the Jumbotron projected a vision of strength and unapologetic aggression. Speech after speech worked to reinforce the need for order and security. With domestic attacks in Dallas, Orlando and San Bernardino on many people?s minds, the message seemed universally accepted. The alliance between a billionaire businessman and Republicans was locked in, even if the party establishment was cold to the relationship. The celebration continued and the empty streets waited outside?
© Danny Wilcox Frazier / VII
21/07/2016 6610
21/07/2016
DWF - Lockdown Inc. (The Republican National Convention)
Republican National Convention
Celebrations after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
LOCKDOWN: The Republican National Convention transformed downtown Cleveland into a maze of steel and concrete barriers constructed to protect Quicken Loans Arena from assault or protest. Law enforcement on bikes, horseback and in rapid response squads occupied much of the city. Side streets appeared empty and many restaurants and bars were quiet. In places, downtown Cleveland felt void of life, the lockdown scaring all but the most faithful away.
Inside the convention the Jumbotron projected a vision of strength and unapologetic aggression. Speech after speech worked to reinforce the need for order and security. With domestic attacks in Dallas, Orlando and San Bernardino on many people?s minds, the message seemed universally accepted. The alliance between a billionaire businessman and Republicans was locked in, even if the party establishment was cold to the relationship. The celebration continued and the empty streets waited outside?
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Syrian Refugees
Sedra Tameem walks her younger sister and brother, Hala and Mutaz, to their busstop in the family's Des Moines neighborhood.
Ghazweh Aljabooli and her husband, Abdul Fattah Tameem, are refugees from Syria who were placed in Des Moines, Iowa with their five children. The family's hometown of Homs has seen some of the most fierce fighting and destruction of the civil war in Syria. For two years the family fled fighting within Syria before making it to Jordan, where they began the long process of of getting refugee status in the United States. From Jordan, Aljabooli and Tameem and their children were flown to Iowa to start a new life in middle America. While the transition has not been easy Tameem says, "the only positive thing is my kids are safe, this is essential."
Iowa's Republican Governor, Terry Branstad, has apposed Syrian refugees being placed in his state. The federal government is in charge of refugee settlement though, and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nonprofit that contracts with the U.S. Department of State, settled the Tameem family in Des Moines.
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Syrian Refugees
Sedra Tameem walks her younger sister and brother, Hala and Mutaz, to their busstop in the family's Des Moines neighborhood.
Ghazweh Aljabooli and her husband, Abdul Fattah Tameem, are refugees from Syria who were placed in Des Moines, Iowa with their five children. The family's hometown of Homs has seen some of the most fierce fighting and destruction of the civil war in Syria. For two years the family fled fighting within Syria before making it to Jordan, where they began the long process of of getting refugee status in the United States. From Jordan, Aljabooli and Tameem and their children were flown to Iowa to start a new life in middle America. While the transition has not been easy Tameem says, "the only positive thing is my kids are safe, this is essential."
Iowa's Republican Governor, Terry Branstad, has apposed Syrian refugees being placed in his state. The federal government is in charge of refugee settlement though, and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nonprofit that contracts with the U.S. Department of State, settled the Tameem family in Des Moines.
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Portfolio
John Neumann works on his pickup, Cactus Flat, South Dakota.
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Portfolio
John Neumann works on his pickup, Cactus Flat, South Dakota.
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Aging
Maxine Peters finally passes away at home, surrounded by her family, friends and hospice aides in her home in Gladesville, W.Va. on Oct. 9, 2000. In rural West Virginia, people still live--and die, the old fashioned way. The Hospice Care Corporation sends health workers into rural homes to make sure that people can meet a dignified end, surrounded by their families.
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Aging
Maxine Peters finally passes away at home, surrounded by her family, friends and hospice aides in her home in Gladesville, W.Va. on Oct. 9, 2000. In rural West Virginia, people still live--and die, the old fashioned way. The Hospice Care Corporation sends health workers into rural homes to make sure that people can meet a dignified end, surrounded by their families.
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Northern Ireland
Children play around an impromptu bonfire in The Fountain, a Loyalist housing estate in Londonderry, Northern Ireland on Aug. 11, 1989.
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Northern Ireland
Children play around an impromptu bonfire in The Fountain, a Loyalist housing estate in Londonderry, Northern Ireland on Aug. 11, 1989.
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Northern Nigeria
Locals go about their routines, stepping over garbage heaps that burn along the railroad tracks in Kaduna, Nigeria on April 3, 2013.
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Northern Nigeria
Locals go about their routines, stepping over garbage heaps that burn along the railroad tracks in Kaduna, Nigeria on April 3, 2013.
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Niger Delta
Armed militants for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, make a show of arms in honor of fallen comrades in the swamps near the village of Oporoza, in the Delta state, Nigeria on Sept. 2, 2006.
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Niger Delta
Armed militants for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, make a show of arms in honor of fallen comrades in the swamps near the village of Oporoza, in the Delta state, Nigeria on Sept. 2, 2006.
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