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  • A herd of animals, yaks are lifting dust. At the Kyrgyz settlement of Bozoi Gumbaz, before Chaqmaqtin lake, Amon Boi's camp.<br />
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Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains (average 4200 meters) , where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
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  • Two young male yaks are fighting in the dust..Summer camp of Muqur, Er Ali Boi's place...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains (average 4200 meters) , where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
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  • A herd of animals, yaks are lifting dust. At the Kyrgyz settlement of Bozoi Gumbaz, before Chaqmaqtin lake, Amon Boi's camp...Trekking through the high altitude plateau of the Little Pamir mountains (average 4200 meters) , where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
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  • Vegetation has been covered with Phosphate dust around the only Phosphate plant in operation on Nauru...Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru is an island nation in Micronesia in the South Pacific.  Nauru was declared independent in 1968 and it is the world's smallest independent republic, covering just 21 square kilometers..Nauru is a phosphate rock island and its economy depends almost entirely on the phosphate deposits that originate from the droppings of sea birds. Following its exploitation it briefly boasted the highest per-capita income enjoyed by any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s..In the 1990s, when the phosphate reserves were partly exhausted the government resorted to unusual measures. Nauru briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre. From 2001 to 2008, it accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing a Nauru detention centre, with refugees from various countries including Afghanistan and Iraq..Most necessities are imported on the island..Nauru has parliamentary system of government. It had 17 changes of administration between 1989 and 2003. In December 2007, former weight lifting medallist Marcus Stephen became the President.
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  • Life of custom harvesters: custom harvesting or custom combining is the business of harvesting of crops for others. Custom harvesters usually own their own combines and work for the same farms every harvest season. Custom harvesting relieves farmers from having to invest capital in expensive equipment while at the same time maximizing the machinery's use. .Harvesters travel North to South through the US, living in trailers, following the season, usually hiring overseas seasonal workers in need of improving their harvesting experience on very large combines (harvesting machines)...A 4-weeks road trip across the USA, from New York to San Francisco, on the steps of Jack Kerouac’s famous book “On the Road”.  Focusing on nomadic America: people that live on the move across the US, out of ideology or for work reasons.
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  • Phosphate flies in the air as the boat is loading with it. Mining Phosphate on Nauru. The cantilever that loads Phosphate onto the ship, operated by Ronphos (= Republic of Nauru Phosphate)...Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru is an island nation in Micronesia in the South Pacific.  Nauru was declared independent in 1968 and it is the world's smallest independent republic, covering just 21 square kilometers..Nauru is a phosphate rock island and its economy depends almost entirely on the phosphate deposits that originate from the droppings of sea birds. Following its exploitation it briefly boasted the highest per-capita income enjoyed by any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s..In the 1990s, when the phosphate reserves were partly exhausted the government resorted to unusual measures. Nauru briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre. From 2001 to 2008, it accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing a Nauru detention centre, with refugees from various countries including Afghanistan and Iraq..Most necessities are imported on the island..Nauru has parliamentary system of government. It had 17 changes of administration between 1989 and 2003. In December 2007, former weight lifting medallist Marcus Stephen became the President.
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  • Mining Phosphate on Nauru. Phosphate spreads in the ocean, during a "spit", to check the cantilever mechanism before the ship arrives. On the cantilever that loads Phosphate onto the ship...Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru is an island nation in Micronesia in the South Pacific.  Nauru was declared independent in 1968 and it is the world's smallest independent republic, covering just 21 square kilometers..Nauru is a phosphate rock island and its economy depends almost entirely on the phosphate deposits that originate from the droppings of sea birds. Following its exploitation it briefly boasted the highest per-capita income enjoyed by any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s..In the 1990s, when the phosphate reserves were partly exhausted the government resorted to unusual measures. Nauru briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre. From 2001 to 2008, it accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing a Nauru detention centre, with refugees from various countries including Afghanistan and Iraq..Most necessities are imported on the island..Nauru has parliamentary system of government. It had 17 changes of administration between 1989 and 2003. In December 2007, former weight lifting medallist Marcus Stephen became the President.
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  • Khasiat Numa's getting water.In Shimshal, one of the remotest village in the Karakoram mountains, and the highest settlement in the Hunza and Gojal region.
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  • Life of custom harvesters: custom harvesting or custom combining is the business of harvesting of crops for others. Custom harvesters usually own their own combines and work for the same farms every harvest season. Custom harvesting relieves farmers from having to invest capital in expensive equipment while at the same time maximizing the machinery's use. .Harvesters travel North to South through the US, living in trailers, following the season, usually hiring overseas seasonal workers in need of improving their harvesting experience on very large combines (harvesting machines)...A 4-weeks road trip across the USA, from New York to San Francisco, on the steps of Jack Kerouac’s famous book “On the Road”.  Focusing on nomadic America: people that live on the move across the US, out of ideology or for work reasons.
    USA_Kerouac_OnTheRoad_11_61.jpg
  • Mining Phosphate on Nauru. On the cantilever that loads Phosphate onto the ship, operated by Ronphos (= Republic of Nauru Phosphate)...Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru is an island nation in Micronesia in the South Pacific.  Nauru was declared independent in 1968 and it is the world's smallest independent republic, covering just 21 square kilometers..Nauru is a phosphate rock island and its economy depends almost entirely on the phosphate deposits that originate from the droppings of sea birds. Following its exploitation it briefly boasted the highest per-capita income enjoyed by any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s..In the 1990s, when the phosphate reserves were partly exhausted the government resorted to unusual measures. Nauru briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre. From 2001 to 2008, it accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing a Nauru detention centre, with refugees from various countries including Afghanistan and Iraq..Most necessities are imported on the island..Nauru has parliamentary system of government. It had 17 changes of administration between 1989 and 2003. In December 2007, former weight lifting medallist Marcus Stephen became the President.
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  • Coral Pinnacles on Topside. The smoke in the distance comes from the Phosphate Plant, processing Phosphate...The area known as "Topside" is the central plateau where all the Phosphate strip mining takes place. It is exploited by a government-owned company known as the Republic of Nauru Phosphate, or RONPhos. Although the initial layer of phosphate has been mined out (approximately 100 million tons), a secondary level of phosphate is now being mined, holding nearly 20 million tons of minable ressources. RONPhos developed plans starting in 2005 for their economical extraction. They are also cutting and crushing into pebbles the coral pinnacles that are dug out, following the phosphate mining. The pebbles are then sold to other Pacific islands as construction material. The cutting of pinnacles allows Nauru to recuperate flat ground on TopSide, part of the rehabilitation effort...Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru is an island nation in Micronesia in the South Pacific.  Nauru was declared independent in 1968 and it is the world's smallest independent republic, covering just 21 square kilometers..Nauru is a phosphate rock island and its economy depends almost entirely on the phosphate deposits that originate from the droppings of sea birds. Following its exploitation it briefly boasted the highest per-capita income enjoyed by any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s..In the 1990s, when the phosphate reserves were partly exhausted the government resorted to unusual measures. Nauru briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre. From 2001 to 2008, it accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing a Nauru detention centre, with refugees from various countries including Afghanistan and Iraq..Most necessities are imported on the island..Nauru has parliamentary system of government. It had 17 changes of administration between 1989 and 2003. In December 2007, former weight lifting medallist Marcus Stephen
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  • At the furnace..The only Phosphate plant in operation on Nauru...Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru is an island nation in Micronesia in the South Pacific.  Nauru was declared independent in 1968 and it is the world's smallest independent republic, covering just 21 square kilometers..Nauru is a phosphate rock island and its economy depends almost entirely on the phosphate deposits that originate from the droppings of sea birds. Following its exploitation it briefly boasted the highest per-capita income enjoyed by any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s..In the 1990s, when the phosphate reserves were partly exhausted the government resorted to unusual measures. Nauru briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre. From 2001 to 2008, it accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing a Nauru detention centre, with refugees from various countries including Afghanistan and Iraq..Most necessities are imported on the island..Nauru has parliamentary system of government. It had 17 changes of administration between 1989 and 2003. In December 2007, former weight lifting medallist Marcus Stephen became the President.
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  • Approaching  dust storm.<br />
Sost is a village in Gojal, Upper Hunza, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. It is the last town inside Pakistan on the Karakoram Highway before the Chinese border. The town is an important place on the highway for all passenger and cargo transport because all traffic crossing the Pakistan-China border passes through this town; the Pakistani immigration and customs departments are based here. Pakistan and China have opened border for trade and tourism at the Khunjerab pass.
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  • A wagon is full of dust and sand from the desert because of a broken window. Life inside the train - mostly Muslim Uighur people  ride this train.
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  • Cloud of dust as the expedition drives into the desert.
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  • Television covered in cloth, to keep the dust off. TV is a precious thing to them. Everyday, there is usually electricity only between 6pm and 10pm.  The traditional life of the Wakhi people, in the Wakhan corridor, amongst the Pamir mountains.
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  • A dust storm over Passu village.
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  • A woman wears a mask to protect herself from the dust and sand. Life inside the train - mostly Muslim Uighur people  ride this train.
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  • A Bactrian Camel dusted with snow, chilling out after a 3 day snow storm.<br />
In and around Ech Keli, Er Ali Boi's camp, one of the richest Kyrgyz in the Little Pamir.<br />
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Trekking with yak caravan through the Little Pamir where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
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  • A Bactrian Camel dusted with snow, chilling out after a 3 day snow storm..In and around Ech Keli, Er Ali Boi's camp, one of the richest Kyrgyz in the Little Pamir...Trekking with yak caravan through the Little Pamir where the Afghan Kyrgyz community live all year, on the borders of China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
    98_Afghanistan_Pamir_183_2_IMG_2088.jpg
  • A Bactrian Camel dusted with snow, chilling out after a 3 day snow storm.
    98_Afghanistan_Pamir_182_2_IMG_2080.jpg
  • Her face dusted in bedak sejuk, a cooling powder made of rice and pandan leaves, Alpaida paddles out to visit friends in stilt houses. The teen and her family belong to the tribal group known as the Sea Bajau because they live year-round on their lepa-lepas, handmade houseboats.
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