New Do’s for Valentine’s Day
The Ukraine has its annual hairdresser’s festival with wild hair updo’s and crazy make-up. This first chick looks like a Bride of Frankenstein with her hair done up that high, the extra doo dads just make it look posh. So she is the posh Bride of Frankenstein.
This guy could have filled in for an Avatar character with his blue and white do.
Nigeria has both Wealth and Poverty
During three trips to Nigeria, Christian Lutz, a photographer, captures both the opulent lifestyles of the Nigerian Oil men and the severe poverty of the local people. While the upper classes eat expensive food and drink wine the local population goes without. The local fish are dead from polluted waters filled with oil.
Open Wide!
This is Marathon a U.S. Dolphin at the Dolphin Research Centre. He is hoping to be fed while he acclimates to his new surroundings.
Stink-o-Licious
Stinky yes, but this Hindu Holy man believes that his burning dried cow dung on his head in an earthen pot is the thing to do for the Magh Mela festival.
Sweat Shops
These Chinese children work in a factory where they connect bra straps to bras. They make .3 yuan for every 100 bra straps that they attach to a machine accessory. They can earn 20 to 30 yuan a day if they are productive. In American dollars they are earning $3-$4.50 a day.
Debris
The Chinese textile industry not only creates cheap goods, and cheap labor, it also is a mass contributor to the pollution problem in the southern industrial towns of Xintang.
Iran Celebrating its 32nd Anniversary of its Islamic Revolution
These are female students waving the Iranian national flag during one of the celebrations.
Celebrations of St. Haralampie
Everyone celebrates something and these people in Blagoeygrad, Bulgaria have gathered to give thanks and to celebrate St. Haralampie, the protector of beekeepers. They are gathered around candles placed on jars of honey in the shape of a cross.
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