Travel Portraits—Week 13 Gallery
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- The souls thief
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- The souls thief
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- I captured this photo last year in Delhi. When I looked through the camera she stared at me and started to move from side to side. I often heard of ancient cultures whose members believed their souls could be stolen by taking pictures of them, so they generally refused to be photographed. In this case it was different. In fact, it was me who was intimidated by her movement and her penetrating gaze. In the few seconds we looked at each other, I really felt as if she was trying to capture my soul... and in some way, she did.
Photo and caption by Carlos Rodríguez
Location: Delhi, India
Category: Travel Portraits
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- Flying the Exuma Islands in a canoe with wings
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- Flying the Exuma Islands in a canoe with wings
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- Flying over the Exuma Islands of the Bahamas in a twin engine canoe with wings, a mounted camera with a remote trigger allowed this photographer to capture the moment forever.
Photo and caption by Leona Boyd
Location: Exuma Islands, Bahamas
Category: Travel Portraits
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- Gone with the wind
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- Gone with the wind
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- A bagpiper waiting for a wedding party almost loses his hat on a windy day in Edinburgh
Photo and caption by Lola Akerstrom
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Category: Travel Portraits
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- It Starts from Here
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- It Starts from Here
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- This is a photo of enormous personal value to me. When I travel, I am always most fascinated by the people I encounter. I want to take photos of them in their daily lives but it never felt quite right to point a camera at someone and then nonchalantly walk away. During a trip to Havana, I did something very simple that changed how I approach photography ever since. I asked these people if I could take a photo of them. And they said, "Yes."
Photo and caption by Mengsu Chang
Location: Havana, Cuba
Category: Travel Portraits
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- Granny and me
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- Granny and me
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- A Tibetan grandmother and her granddaughter at the door of their tent in remote Amdo province of historical Tibet at 4400mts high.
Photo and caption by Nicolas Marino
Location: Tibetan plateau. Amdo. Qinghai. China
Category: Travel Portraits
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- iPod Love
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- iPod Love
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- I saw this couple happily sharing an iPod while waiting for my flight in the Zurich airport. I thought it spoke well to technology and a little bit of love:)
Photo and caption by Angie McMonigal
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Category: Travel Portraits
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- Ecuadorian Chagra
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- Ecuadorian Chagra
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- An Ecuadorian chagra (cowboy) surveys the landscape of Tierra de Volcan, at the foot of Cotopaxi.
Photo and caption by Steve Bouey
Location: Tierra de Volcan, Ecuador
Category: Travel Portraits
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- Vegetable Seller in Tibetan Exile Town McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, North India
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- Vegetable Seller in Tibetan Exile Town McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, North India
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- Every morning this Indian vegetable seller would greet me with a piping hot glass of chai tea and a smile. The fresh and cool air up in the hill station of McLeod Ganj turns the Tibetan exile town into a busy tourist spot in summer when the rest of India becomes unbearably hot. In the spring time, as this photo was taken, it was wonderfully quiet. The Dalai Lama had just left town and so I had beautifully peaceful mornings to myself, to photograph... and drink chai.
Photo and caption by Christina Julius
Location: Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, Northern India
Category: Travel Portraits
