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Aniu / Agence Vu' / Aurora Photos
Vu photographer, Aniu, captures dynamic aerials of highways in China. The photographer's images transform from simple traffic shots to interesting shapes and forms.
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Formerly a part of Yugoslavia, Slovenia is a European gem for people traveling on a budget. Various photographers capture this Central European country that is becoming popular with tourists.
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Iceland is quickly becoming one of Europe's hottest travel spots. From it's breathtaking glaciers to it's enchanting hot springs, Iceland offers a unique experience. Various Aurora photographers capture the essence of Iceland through shooting the country's natural features.
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Various Photographers/ Hemis Photos / Aurora Photos
Hemis photos is the largest collection of stock images of France and is recognized for its outstanding travel pictures for editorial and advertising use. The Hemis photo collection at Aurora Photos is your source for creative travel imagery.
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Various Photographers/ Nordic Photos / Aurora Photos
Nordic Photos is one of the largest collections of images focused on the Nordic region. From editorial to creative imagery, The Nordic Photos collection at Aurora Photos is your source for images from the North.
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Various Bilderberg Photographers
From Gdansk, Poland to China's, Gobi Desert the photographers of our partner agency, Bilderberg, take you there. Visit Aurora Photos for a global journey.
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Lars Tunbjork / Agence VU / Aurora Photos
Dubai is emerging as a center of interest in the world for sports. Emirati billionaires pursue their quest to provide the biggest and best of everything from golf courses watered by 2,256 sprinklers to one of the world's largest indoor ski resorts.
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Portugal is one of the oldest countries in the world, but quickly growing as a new cultural hot spot. Aurora photographers give you a glimpse of what this country has to offer.
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Elyse Butler / Aurora Photos
California based photographer, Elyse Butler, brings her passion for creating story-telling visual art to Aurora. Convinced that every being has the potential to promote change and make a difference in the world, she is inspired by the ability to create, feel, love, and laugh!
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Canada is the world's second-largest country that attracts tourism through its uniqueness. Experience Canada's extraordinary beauty through Aurora photographers' eyes.
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Joanna B. Pinneo/ Aurora Photos
Each year, Sudan exports a quarter million camels to Egypt. Desert nomads depend on the profitable camel trade for their livelihood. To do so, they must travel one of the most treacherous of the ancient trading routes - Darb el-Arbein, the Forty Days Road, so named because of the length of time it takes to travel from central Sudan to southern Egypt.
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Katja Heinemann / Aurora Photos
From outdoor films and concerts to the season's coolest events and installations, explore NYC's summer moments. Aurora photographer Katja Heinemann shares her glimpse of the NYC experience.
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John Lee / Aurora Photos
Aurora photographer John Lee gives us a fresh perspective on the "Sunshine State" from Venice Beach to San Francisco.
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Christopher Herwig/ Aurora Photos
n 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed it tore down with it the infamous Iron Curtain revealing a world that was mostly unknown to the west for the better part of the century. The phenomenon of the road side bus stop shelter as works of art is a surprising revelation one may not have expected to discover in this land filled with functionality and coldness.
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This summer the eyes of the world will be focused on China. Aurora contributing photographers have been focusing their lenses on China. Here are some of their outstanding images.
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New York City has incredible diversity and how Aurora photographers see the Big Apple can be just as broad and quirky.
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Michael Hanson
Michael's travel photography keeps him on the road undertaking documentary projects that delve deep into indigenous cultures and social issues. This flavorful feature focuses on the people and life of a village in Fiji.
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Various Aurora Photographers
Winter in Maine is beautiful, but sometimes cruel, violent coastal storms, unexpected thaws and flooding as well as snow and ice. Regardless, those seem to pass and leave the winter that many Mainiacs and visitors long for.
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Sean Davey / Aurora Photos
In his teens Sean Davey’s homeland of Tasmania fueled his passion for photography and great surf. Oahu's famed north shore has become his paradise, which he loves to share through his photography. Lose yourself in this award winning imagery.
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Per-Andre Hoffman / Aurora Photos
Raised in Brazil and Norway, schooled in the USA and England, Per-Andre Hoffman never has stopped traveling. Today he continues to to document the world for many renowned magazines, communications ministries, and travel companies. Please, enjoy his work as much as we do at Aurora Photos.
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Eric Rorer / Aurora Photos
Ever since Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos in 1835, the tiny archipelago 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador has captivated the world’s imagination. However, increased tourist traffic and population growth have put a huge stress on the islands’ ecological balance. Invasive non-native plants and animals are feeding on or forcing out rare native species and the heavy impact of the human footprint is often hidden out of view. Aurora photographer shows a place that is at once beautiful, magical and under siege.
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Pascal Meunier / Cosmos / Aurora Photos
From hyena man, who feeds hyenas on the outskirts of the town every night, to its 82 mosques, three of which date from the 10th Century, its no wonder that the Ethiopian historic town, Harar Jugol, has been listed as a world heritage site by the United Nations.
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Various Hemis Photographers
Aurora Photos now represents some of the best travel images from Hemis, a French stock agency specializing in travel photography. This is a selection from around the world. Look for a selection of French travel images coming soon.
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Ulf Boettcher / Bilderberg / Aurora
Ulf Böttcher's photographs have been published in more than 80 books. He freelances out of Germany in both press photography and studio work, as well as in the advertising world. Ulf lives in Potsdam and is part of Bilderberg Archiv der Fotografen, represented in North America by Aurora Photos.
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Kris Pannecoucke / Aurora Photos
Men, women and children bathe in the waters of Sangam in India during a cycle of pilgrimage known as the Kumbh Mela when millions of Hindus visit four cities on a 12-yearly cycle to expunge their sins by bathing in especially holy stretches of the Ganges and its tributaries in the belief that a ritual dip would wash away all sins. The biggest days of the Kumbh Mela festival are January 19 (Mauni Amavasya), when about 20-25 million are expected to converge for this spectacle of spirituality, devotion and stoicism.
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Matthew Wakem / Aurora Photos
Yes, spa means more than just a massage now. The spa craze means that there are a lot of different treatments that will appeal to a lot of different people. Today, spas have become a more widely accepted recreation activity and very popular with both genders and with every age range of traveler. Check out the work of Aurora’s Matthew Wakem and his recent spa photography.
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Various Aurora Photographers
A densely populated and geographically low-lying country, about half of its surface area is less than 1 metre (3.3 ft) above sea level and much of it is actually below sea level, The Netherlands is popularly known for its windmills, cheese, wooden shoes, dikes, flowers, dunes, bicycles and social tolerance. Come explore a country most call Holland.
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Wolfgang Fuchs / Bilderberg / Aurora Photos
After an amazing economic turn-around, Ireland today is second richest country in the European Union, but classic Ireland remains. It is a land of green country and majestic seaside cliffs and rich in history, legend and character.
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Andrew Cutraro / Aurora Photos
There's a new kind of revolution emerging in Latin America, and its most successful manifestation has been Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian movement. Chavez’s progressive policies are affecting political and economic thinking around the world and presenting the U.S. with a burgeoning foreign policy crisis. Aurora's Andrew Cutraro takes a closer look at how Chavez's policies have affected the political, economic and social situation on the ground in Venezuela, and brings a unique perspective of a country coming into its own on the world stage.
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Frank Huster / Aurora Photos
The old Buddhist kingdom of Zanskar quietly sits in a remote valley in the Indian Himalaya, near the border of Pakistan. Only during summer does a dirt road connect Zanskar to the rest of the world. The remainder of the year, the region remains cut-off, but for a couple of winter months when the temperature drops enough for the Zanskar River to freeze and “Chadhar” to come to life. Chadhar is this vital section of the River that flows from Zanskar into the Indus River and allows walkers to rejoin the highway connecting Leh, the capital of Ladakh to Kargil and the West. The week-long journey remains a traditional route used by all who must travel during the winter months. The Indian army’s Border Roads Organization (BRO) is building a road in the Zanskar river gorge, which will quickly and safely link Zanskar’s capital Padum to Leh. While everybody in Zanskar wants the road, they also know it will change their culture and traditions forever.
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Katja Heinemann / Aurora Photos
First visited by Europeans in about the year 1500 and colonized successfully by France St. Lucia is the sort of island that Caribbean travelers dream about, small, lush, tropical and relatively unknown.
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Various Aurora Photographers
Across the world, festivals - communal celebrations of harvests, history, culture, religion, and entertainment – bring us together in revelry and remembrance. They become events of human interaction punctuated by colorful clothing, lights, dance, food, and music. Aurora Photos has some of the best and most interesting images from festivals around the world. Take a look.
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Anders Ryman
Anthropologist, photographer, and writer, Anders Ryman put them all together and focuses his camera on travel and traditional cultures around the world. His work shows a deep understanding and appreciation for people and cultures, whether he is photographing the Hait Haddidou in the High
Atlas of Morocco or Uru Murato Indians in Bolivia’s Altiplano. Based in Sweden, Anders consistently brings back compelling images and stories from all corners of the globe.
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Carlos Lujan / ASA / Aurora
The Oceanographic in Valencia, Spain's contains 45,000 fish, invertebrates and marine mammals, representing 500 species.
Designed by Felix Candela, it displays in a series of sculptural structures, arranged around a huge lake, each devoted to a different sea. Europe's largest marine park is more than an sophisticated aquarium it is also a research institute.
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Clay McLachlan / IPN / Aurora
It is easy to fall in love with northern Italy’s Piemonte, a region not yet exploited. Geographic variations and easy access to diverse activities gives the area its strength. It has mountains, hill towns, fine foods, such as white truffles, and it is home to Barolo and Barbaresco wines!
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Pascal Maitre / Cosmos / Aurora
When the Portuguese arrived in 1456 Cape Verde was uninhabited. Independence came in 1975, but this small nation of islands lacks resources and has severe droughts. Most of the nation's GDP is from the services industry and it is now considered a country of average human development. Cape Verde has significant cooperation with Portugal at every level as many descendants come from white Portuguese settlers and black African slaves. More Cape Verdeans live abroad than in Cape Verde and share a culture that reflects its mixed Portuguese and African roots. It is well known for its diverse forms of music such as Morna (the Capeverdian Fado) and the urban Cape Verdian kizomba.
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Clay McLachlan / Aurora
This famous quote, “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast,” by Ernest Hemingway could easily be linked to the photographs of Clay McLachlan.
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Siegfried Martin / Bilderberg / Aurora
Bilderberg photographer Siegfried Martin traveled to the most remote areas of southwest China's, Sichuan (Four Rivers) Province, one of the largest and most inaccessible provinces in the nation. He returns with a textured and detailed impression of its people. To view all the images search 86179*
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Jose Azel / Aurora
Two and a half million people visit Holland each year - not the country across the ocean where the people wear wooden shoes, but the town (pop. 35,048) in Michigan that is home to six million tulips and an annual festival that celebrates the town's most beloved perennial.
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Bill Bachmann
Bill Bachmann has traveled the world bringing back classic images that depict the beauty and character of people and places that he photographs. Recognized as one of the top five stock photographers in the world, Bill has traveled to over 150 countries making remarkable images that are model and property released for commercial use. Aurora is pleased to offer a selection of some of Bill Bachmann's greatest images.
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Various Aurora Photographers
Few cultures are as food oriented as the Chinese. Variety is a cornerstone for many reasons, from China's size to famine. Having suffered from many poor harvests people would explore everything eatable to stay alive. Ingredients such as wood ears and lily buds were discovered this way. Scarcity also taught people how to avoid waste. Various fruit and vegetable peels and even shark fins turned out to be delicacies in Chinese food.
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Ashley Gilbertson / Aurora
Aurora photographer Ashley Gilbertson looks at New Yorkers, a peculiar lot, who arguably, as a collective are more ambitious and driven than any community on earth. People flock to the city from all over the globe: to escape persecution, play tourist, seek opportunity or simply test their mettle. New York City has and does welcome everyone from misfits to masters. Hosting every culture imaginable, the city is the ultimate melting pot where life's ordinary events become extraordinary.
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Robert Caputo / Aurora
Geographically and culturally more a part of Tibet than Nepal, Mustang contains a wild landscape of eroded cliffs and hidden caves. Little changed by twentieth century influences, the culture of the hardy Lobas people remains full of myth and legend. Mustang was founded in the 15th century by a Tibetan monarch who consolidated various small local chiefdoms into the Kingdom of Lo. Eventually Mustang was incorporated into Nepal but it has remained isolated, and rarely visited.
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Peter Essick / Aurora
“Torres del Paine National Park, which is a World Heritage Site, has an almost unreal landscape, with vibrant green vegetation, turquoise blue water, and amazing light at sunrise.” This is just one of the impressions Aurora photographer Peter Essick had after spending several months in Patagonia. There Peter photographed the land and the people.
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Peter Essick / Aurora
Aurora photographer Peter Essick spent several months in Patagonia. There he photographed the land and the people. Peter tells us of one individual, "Joaquin Nonso in the northern Patagonian town of Gaima. He's about 82 years old and runs an outdoor gallery in his backyard that he calls El Desafío (The Challenge). He takes discards such as old plastic bottles, tins, and soda cans, and makes artwork out of them."
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Christian Heeb / Aurora
With more than 90 published travel books on subjects ranging from Southern Africa and Morocco to France and most parts of North America and the Caribbean, Aurora proudly introduces Christian Heeb's photography.
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Steve Outram / Aurora
Tunisia's beautiful beaches and historical treasures attract
nearly 5 million each year. They come for the history, architecture and the 810 mile coastline. They sunbath, dive, and sail along the vast stretches of white sand beaches along the Mediterranean. The visit the Punic and Roman archaeological sites in Carthage and 2nd Century Roman temple in Dougga, the Phoenician port of Utica, and El Jem's Coliseum, which is second only to Rome. The Bardo Museum, near Tunis, boasts the largest collection of Roman mosaics in the world. Masterpieces of Arab-Islamic architecture attract other visitors.
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Paul Souders / IPN / Aurora
Do a search for "Souders" on Aurora's site and these are some of the images that appear. Range, versatility, quality and more comes from Paul Souders' photography. Enjoy looking and searching through his expanded collection.
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Pascal Meunier/Cosmos/Aurora
When the conquering empire receded south, the architectual remains of the Greek and Roman baths and the balnea gave way to the bath houses, or hammams of Islam. However, not until Muhammed praised the use of sweat baths in the 5th Century did the Islamic hammam proliferate.
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Pierre Boulat/Cosmos, Helene Bamberger/Cosmos and Eduardo Nave/ASA
Almost sixty years after the invasion of Nazi-occupied France by Allied US, British, and Canadian forces, the memory endures. This, one of the most dangerous and deadly military engagemnts of the last century is examined visually by three photographers. Please, view the work of Pierre Boulat, Helene Bamberger, and Eduardo Nave on the beaches where hundreds of thousands lost their lives.
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The earliest lighthouses were simply bonfires built on hillsides to guide ships. The first light served the old world city of Alexandria in 285 B.C. The first American light came to life in 1716 at Boston Harbor. Aurora brings you a selection by several photographers.
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Jon Lowenstein/Aurora
Al Capone, the Pullman Era, the Stockyards and the Black Sox, Chicago endures. Today, the sights and colors of the Windy City form a world well captured by the eye of Jon Lowenstein in his impressions of Chicago.
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Jim Lo Scalzo/US News/Aurora
The spirit and energy of creation surrounds you on Hawaii's Big Island. Polynesians claims the goddess Pele gave volcanic birth to the Islands of Aloha. Hawaii's Big Island is her latest and greatest creation. Still warm from its fiery birth and growing every day as its active volcano, Kilauea, sends new land to a steamy meeting with the ocean 4,000 feet below. Countless waterfalls feeding rain forests of botanical wonder add a fantasy flavor to the landscape. Massive black lava fields hint at the island's relative youth.
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Russell Gordon/Aurora
Over the past 10 years, Russell Gordon has covered people, news and events in more than 30 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. In Afghanistan, Cambodia, Yugoslavia and the Bosnian Serb Republic, he has reported on civil war and ethnic. He has been published in many international publications such as Newsweek/Japan, Newsweek en Espanol, TIME Magazine, Business Week/Latin America, GEO Germany, Neue Revue, Lufthansa Magazine and more. Currently he is based and home in Mexico City.
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David McLain/Aurora
America loves to eat. Whether its carefully aged Prosciutto, Genera Tao's chicken, or a french fry sandwich, no fear exists. Take a quirky look at middle America's love affair with food through Pittsburgh Pennsylvania's Strip District, a place where people from diverse ethnic backgrounds come together to celebrate food and the art of eating.
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Raul Montanos/ASA/Aurora
Last year the Buenavista Palace was restored and opened for the long anticipated Picasso Museum, in Picasso's home town of Malaga, Spain.
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Jose Azel/Aurora
In the middle of winter, in the middle of Manhattan there is a great public park where past and present co-exist. This year Central Park turns 150 years old.
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Pascal Maitre/Cosmos/Aurora
The Malagasy proverb claims: "They who drink the water from the Manangareza river always come back to Madagascar". Read on…
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Joanna Pinneo/Aurora
Tour the great expanse of the Sonoran desert-- blanketing the earth from Southern Arizona to California, and deep into the Mexican states of Sonora and the peninula of Baja California. A dessicated land of muted
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David McLain/Aurora
Birth place of the Bungee jump, land of mist and ice, from vineyards to caves and glaciers an adventurer's paradise.
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Peter Bialobrzeski/Laif/Aurora
First Place World Press Photo winner
Skyscrapers rise fast, whole districts change quickly, in Hong Kong,Bangkok, Shanghai...the city is re-invented.
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Jeff Jacobson/Aurora
For Americans and visitors from other countries, these monuments embody the principles of freedom our founding fathers dreamed of and a nation has fought for.
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Adrian Bailey/Aurora
Adrian Bailey and writer David Bristow attempt South Africa's largest range known as the Dragon's Mountain. Full Text Available For License.
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Torsten Andreas Hoffman/Aurora
In the summer of 2001 laif photographer T. A. Hoffman finished work on his large format New York calendar and noticed a predominance of World Trade Towers in the images.
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David McLain/Aurora
Follow an expedition through the winding path of the Tatshenshini river in British Columbia. The river runs through cool green mountains and ice blue glaciers.
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Hugh Brown/IPN/Aurora
Hugh Brown is a landscape photographer based in northern Australia spending much of his time traveling the north wilderness areas of the country. This is one of this country's most spectacular places. It is also incredibly harsh and dangerous. On numerous occasions Hugh has encountered trouble. Yet, Hugh believes that challenging circumstances teach one lessons that few other forums can offer, particularly the value of life.
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Scott S. Warren/Aurora
In Cuba politics and necessity have conspired to create a living snapshot of America's golden age of automobiles.
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Chris Anderson/Aurora
The Sahara's Ténéré is a chunk of the planet gone dead, 154,000 square miles [398,860 square kilometers] of nothing-except for faith, war, salt, beer, speed … and an urgent sense of what it is to be alive.
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Photographs by Randy Olson and Melissa Farlow
Buscas algo un poco diferente? Visite una isla carribeana lleno de historia, musica y corazon.
Journey to Cuba!
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Nina Berman/Aurora
In Manhattan's Meat Packing District, the theme changes every night but generally a mix of fetish, drag queens, and goth rockers take the streets and clubs.
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