The stories behind them are even more gripping.
FacebookTweet Forgotten Land, Defiant People – Tibet Ancient Tibet was comprised of three provinces, U-Tsang, Amdo and Kham. The present day Tibetan Autonomous Region includes...
A London exhibition is set to celebrate Steve McCurry's relationship with Afghanistan's people, culture and landscape.
The stunning images offer a celebration of the amazing, inspirational, heartwarming - but sometimes tragic - stories that were caught on camera by Barcroft Media in 2014.
From photographer Mihaela Noroc's stunning new book, Atlas of Beauty.
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The earth is full of wonders, whether you're talking about historical or modern marvels, technical and architectural achievements, or breathtakingly beautiful geological and natural wonders.
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You think you see different cultures when you leave your home town and drive 30 minutes to a family road
The Sony World Photography Awards has announced its Open category winners and shortlist from over 345,000 entries, and they do not disappoint.
"I wish they had these when my babies were little." We hear it all the time but the truth is that cultural babywearing has been present all over the world for a long, long time. See the different baby carrier styles across all the populated continents of the world!
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Getting people together is at the heart of what we love about planning parties and events around the world. So, why not take a tour of some of the world’s biggest gatherings? While not all festivals can include a Beychella performance, there are art festivals, moon celebrations, new year’s parties and so many other reasons to get family and friends in one place to uplift one another and carry on traditions that have been around for many generations. From the lantern festival of Chiang Mai to summer moon parties in Greece to a Japanese flower show, we’re on a world tour of what it looks like to celebrate culture. Reporter: Alyssa Brown
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You think you see different cultures when you leave your home town and drive 30 minutes to a family road
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Proof that beauty comes in all colors.
Mostrar la diversidad del mundo a través de los retratos de sus habitantes es el leit motiv de ‘The World in Faces’, de Alexander Khimushin.
Globalisation and development are impacting heavily on the lives of tribes living in the Omo Valley who depend on the river for their survival
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Portrait of two young men dressed up as chinelos for carnival in Tepotzotlan, Mexico, December 1951.Photograph by Justin Locke, National Geographic
The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world including the typhoon in the Philippines, the Gaza conflict and wingsuit flying over the French alps
You think you see different cultures when you leave your home town and drive 30 minutes to a family road
The most addictive and beautiful thing about travelling is being able to learn about and experience a new culture.
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Rough Guides photographer Tim Draper shares some of his stunning shots taken in northern Laos, where he spent time with the Akha people.
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From fire blazing Bainang dancers and Huli Wigmen warriors, to crocodile-scaled men of the Sepik River. Meet the local communities of Papua New Guinea...
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A stunning new collection of portraits—comprising individuals from Polynesia and South Sudan to Chad and China—is a testament to preserving imperiled cultures
Brit photographer Jimmy Nelson, 52, captures the raw, natural beauty of tribespeople adorned in traditional dress, many with elaborate face paint and extraordinarily headdresses
Jimmy Nelson has gone all over the earth to photograph native peoples at their proudest moments and to show you their soul.
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Th lady on the right has on 44 solid huge gold amulets. Six worn in a headdress, a belt of 9 domes, 6 smaller tdomes behind and a two very huge amulets at the bottom. On the sides of her lower robes are rectangular . Another five solid gold Gau boxes are in front. Probably she could be wearing 20 kilos of gold alone. Tibetans consider it a sacriledge to alloy gold, when gold appears in ornaments it is pure gold. The current price of this 20 kilos of raw gold alone is almost a millions dollars. Of course these ornaments as rare artworks by master goldsmiths are worth much more for the workmanship. The young lady on the right has a belt of 9 gold amulets, and six amulets in her hair. She wears 5 gold and silver Gau amulets in the front of her lower robes, and 4 chain amulets, each consisting 6 parallel silver chains with embossed gold at each end. The enormous coral beads in these ladies necklaces are often worth more than their weight in gold, and the black and white dzi beads between them can be worth tens of thousands of dollars each if they are antique or ancient. these breathtaking costumes are only worn in full about 20 times in the life of the wearer, as they take around two hours to put on with the help of their family, and are incredibly heavy, leading to tiredness and stiff shoulders ===================================================== Ornaments make up most of the life savings of many Khampa families, and so play an important role in Tibetan families' lives as well as in announcing the social status of the wearers. They are saved up for over many years and handed down for centuries from generation to generation within families. Until very recently, these families were nomadic and have to move every few months because of the snowy seasons in the Himalayas, so Khampas have always needed to store their wealth in portable form. So being unable to store wealth in the form of estates or houses or land or in a bank, for millenia wealth has been stored in art, precious fabrics, and particularly into ornaments. Their culture is very conservative about the type of ornaments favored: for thousands of years jewelry made from amber, turquoise and coral have been worn because the stones are believed to hold spiritual power. Gold and silver and also naturally found in Tibet, and the use of these metals by the wealthy also goes back thousands of years. Their ornaments are very chunky, bold and colorful. While the gold earrings that Khampa women wear may have cost them a year or maybe several year's of their salary, ornaments carry so much social status in their society that probably didn't have to think twice about the purchase. To the Khampa people these ornaments have the utmost sentimental value and significance, because they are the physical remnants of generations of their ancestors hard work or success. what these people are wearing is not just their life savings, but also their family history and treasure. this culture has been around for millenia - archeological finds from the 1st century AD in the khampa area unearthed ornaments that are essentially the same in design and materials as today's are. there are also beliefs that the stones provide good luck and protection to disease. dyed red coral is the most sought after stone, but interestingly tibet is very very far from any oceans - all the coral is imported by traders! Religious symbols from Tibetan Buddhism frequency form the designs of pieces, however archeological finds show that the role of ornaments in Tibetan society and peoples' lives long predate the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet. Indeed the beliefs of spiritual protection being provided by coral, amber and turquoise probably originate from the ancient shamanic Bon religion. ANOTHER PHOTO of her is below... (click the thumbnail)
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The portraits were taken by Russian photographer Alexander Khimushin and offer a fascinating insight into the lives of people in Siberia - some of them in communities of only 100.
You think you see different cultures when you leave your home town and drive 30 minutes to a family road
Tribal art and traditions can be weird and wonderful, from the Long Neck Tribe of Burma to the beautiful colors of the dancing Wodaabe Fulani tribesmen of Southern Niger.
'Blink, and they're gone.'
This article feature examples of traditional costume or dress worn by the peoples around the globe. Peoples often call this kind of costumes "national", but the beauty of them have nothing to do with
