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Amazon Rainforest, Peru - Men drinking Masato. Masato is a fermented drink made of yuca which is quite common among Matsigenkas. It is also an important part of social and cultural identity of Matsigenka people which brings the community together.

Portrait of an Arhuaco boy, Colombia

Portrait of a Kichwa girl, Ecuador

La Paz, Bolivia

Cusco, Peru

The largest palm field in the Middle East, Ab pakhsh, Iran

Amazon Rainforest, Peru - Portrait of Yac

Selva Viva Protected Rainforest, Ecuador - Corny is one of the spider monkeys which is recently liberated. In the first phase of the liberation, the animals will be out of enclosures but will be helped with finding food. The goal is that, over time t

Qashqai Nomads, Iran

Kong, Iran - Sailors unloading fish after spending several days on the sea. Working as a sailor in a fishing Lenj is extremely hard. Sailors spend more than a week on the sea, rest for 2 - 3 days and again go back to the sea. Most of the sailors come

Shiraz, Iran

Laft, Iran - A group of elderly Nakhodas (Lenj captains) sitting at the waterfront. There is only a handful of Nakhodas still alive who used to travel with sail Lenjs before they give their place to the Lenjs with engine. The transition occurred grad

Tbilisi, Georgia - Gholamreza taking a nap while spending several days in Tbilisi waiting for a new load of goods. "We've have never seen our children growing up" as said by many drivers. Despite all these difficulties, there are many truck drivers w

Qeshm Island, Iran - A shipbuilder walking in one of the Iran's largest fiberglass Lenj construction workshops at Peiposht, south of Iran. Lenjs (also known as dhow) are traditional trading vessels that have been used since hundreds of years ago in t

Tbilisi, Georgia - A truck driver taking nap on a Persian carpet before returning to Iran on the following day.