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Svetlana Bahchevanova / Aurora Photos
Aurora photographer Svetlana Bahchevanova explores the contrast and psychological conflict between the reclaimed cultural and spiritual identify of the Lakota Sioux and the poverty and deprivation of life on the Rez, as it is familiarly known to its residents .
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G.M.B Akash / Bilderberg / Aurora Photos
It is generally estimated that there are around 20,000 -30,000 female sex workers working through brothels in Bangladesh. Photographer, G.M.B Akash, captures the daily life of these women.
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From political oppression to the aftermath of a cyclone, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a country struggling to find it's freedom. Various Aurora photographers capture Myanmar's amazing culture and beauty behind it's closed doors.
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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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Kosuke Okahara / Agence VU / Aurora Photos
Self-injury has become a very serious problem in Japanese high schools. VU Photographer Kosuke Okahara's images document a world of pain and suffering by many young women in Japan.
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Various Aurora Photographers
Thailand is one of the biggest tourist destinations in southeast Asia. Aurora photographers capture the essence of this ancient kingdom's natural beauty and cultural attraction.
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Justin Maxon / Aurora Photos
During the Vietnam War, the United States sprayed an estimated 17 million gallons of chemicals on Vietnam. As a result, since the war ended, 1.5 million Vietnamese people are believed to be victims of Agent Orange poisoning, with many of them living in extreme pain and isolation with debilitating symptoms.
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Ivan Kashinsky/Aurora Photos
Pablo Fajardo is the lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Chevron. This is possibly the largest environmental lawsuit ever filed in the world. For twenty years Texaco was responsible for recklessly disposing of crude oil and toxic waste, which leaked into the water supply of the people living in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Chien-min Chung/ Aurora Photos
Beichuan is a county located at the epicenter of China's worst earthquake in 30 years. At least 80 per cent of the county is destroyed and the death toll could top 80, 000 according to the government. New Aurora photographer Chien-min Chung captured a scene of overwhelming devastation through his panoramic images.
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In the past year, prices have risen significantly for basic food on the international commodity market. Around the world, countries are feeling the effects with severe food shortages. Over the past year, rice prices have risen by 70%. The price of wheat has more than doubled. Corn and soy have been trading well above average. The global food crisis is being blamed on factors such as the growing population and emerging economies like China and India.
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Callie Shell / Aurora Photos
Join Aurora photographer Callie Shell as she covers Barack Obama on the Iowa caucus campaign trail with exclusive behind-the-scenes access shot on assignment for Time magazine.
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Ashley Gilbertson / Aurora Photos
Award winning photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson covered the Iraq war comprehensively throughout its the initial 18 months. Soon a book of that work will be published. Recently, he returned to Baghdad and came back with these images of that city today.
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Jay L. Clendenin
Virgina Tech University was devastated after a student went on a deadly shooting spree on Monday, April 16. Aurora photographer Jay L. Clendenin photographed the campus as students and faculty react, mourn and begin to cope with the tragic loss of life.
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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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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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Callie Shell / Aurora Photos
Barack Obama with his eloquent keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention confirmed his status as one of the Democratic party's freshest and most inspirational new leaders. Will he be the next Democratic hopeful?
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Didier Ruef / Pixsil / Aurora
Boys and girls at Nyandarva boarding primary school work in a large agricultural garden, organized by "Gardens for Life". This initiative seeks to embed the most fundamental of issues, food and nutrition, within the education curriculum by maximizing the use of school gardens and as a source of income for the school. After feeding the students, the foodstuff produced can be sold locally.
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Aurora Photographers
Five years after September 11, 2001, Aurora looks back on that terrible day and the days following when New York and the country pulled together to remember the fallen.
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David Blumenfeld
As the latest chapter of violence and crisis in the Middle East continues to escalate, Aurora Photographer David Blumenfeld has been at the Lebanese border in Northern Israel photographing the Israeli Defense Force military campaign and the towns where Hezbollah rockets and mortars have been exploding.
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Peter Essick / Aurora
We know earthquakes level cities and kill people. In December 2004, a giant earthquake caused a tsunami that killed over 220,000 people. In Kashmir last October, a magnitude 7.6 quake claimed 73,000 lives. In cities across the globe, city planners, scientists, and emergency rescue services are studying earthquakes and preparing for the fallout of the next big quake. Aurora photographer Peter Essick traveled the globe, documenting the cities most at risk, and following scientists in their quest to better understand earthquakes. These are some of his images.
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Agnes Dherbeys / COSMOS / Aurora
East Timor's president threatened to resign Thursday after the country's beleaguered prime minister refused to step down, deepening a political crisis following weeks of bloody street battles. In addition, tens of thousands of people displaced by the recent unrest in Timor Leste, both in the countryside as well as thousands who stayed at home in the capital, Dili, are in urgent need of food aid, according to assessments by WFP and its partners.
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Jim Lo Scalzo / US News / Aurora Photos
Lo Scalzo examines the landscape of the U.S.–Mexico border, a boundary with the highest number of both legal and illegal crossings of any place on earth. Some 350 million people cross legally every year. The differences in living standards between these countries are the primary force behind the migratory flows.
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Various Aurora Photographers
The US immigration Act of 1907 reorganized the states bordering Mexico into Mexican Border District to stem the flow of immigrants into the U.S. Almost 100 years later the flow continues and the issues remain. Various Aurora photographers have examined this subject visually telling human stories in the process.
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Various Aurora Photographers
The effects of Hurricane Katrina will be felt for a long time to come. Here's a sample of what Aurora affiliated photographers saw.
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David Krusso / Aurora
When hurricane Katrina slammed ashore August 29th with 150-mph (240-kph) winds no one imaged the aftermath it would bring in its wake. From a rescue workers perspective here are images that show its devestation and rescue efforts.
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Jim Reed / IPN / Aurora
Award-winning photographer Jim Reed has premium-quality, extraordinary weather images. He captures everything from cumulonimbus clouds and hoar frost to hurricanes and tornadoes. Aurora is proud to have such one of a kind work on our web site.
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Ashley Gilbertson
"Amphipoda", "The Wave", and "The Splash King" are not superheroes, but they are capable of freely operating on land and in water. Their amphibious abilities aren't due to special powers, but to their Amphicars, which function as both cars and motorboats. And these fittingly nick-named men were just three of 200 Amphicar owners and enthusiasts who convened this past weekend for the 12th Annual International Amphicar Owner's
Convention and Swim-In in Celina, Ohio, where the vehicles have delighted the local residents for the past seven years.
Aurora has text that can be licensed along with the photographs for this story.
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Katja Heinemann / Aurora
For the first time in the history of the AIDS, HIV-positive children are growing up to become teenagers. But a cure for the disease has yet to be found, and infected children have to cope with toxic, often experimental medical regimens and a budding consciousness of sexuality and the conflicts with the knowledge of their affliction.
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Robb Kendrick / Aurora
Last month, Amnesty International called Guantanamo "the gulag of our time," sparking a storm of protests from administration supporters. Currently a Time Magazine report fuels Guantanamo criticism. Aurora photographer Robb Kendrick toured the military base in Cuba where “unlawful combatants” have been kept since the Afghan war and emerged with a unique set of images that help frame current events on the base.
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Ashley Gilbertson / Aurora
Photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson of the Aurora photography agency, has won the Robert Capa Gold Medal in the Overseas Press Club (OPC) awards for best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise for his work, “The Battle for Fallujah.” An honor that places him among a long list of revered conflict photographers.
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Various Aurora Photographers
March 17, 2005 - The Senate voted yesterday 51-49 in favor of oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Hurdles still remain, yet drilling advocates said they were close to achieving their long fight to tap billions of barrels of oil beneath the 1.5 million-acre tundra. Search ANWR for more images of the Refuge on www.auroraphotos.com
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Peter Essick / Aurora
Global warming has been called the most important issue in science today. The data shows that humans are causing the planet to warm by burning fossil fuels. If the warming continues and the computer models are accurate, millions of people and whole ecosystems could be adversly affected. Peter Essick travelled to many remote locations around the world to document the changes scientists are beginning to observe. Aurora has a complete collection of all the major components of this important issue.
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Bruno Stevens / Cosmos / Aurora
The New York Times wrote: Of the countries affected by the tsunami, none has suffered proportionately more devastation than Sri Lanka, with 30,000 people reported killed out of a population of just 19.5 million. (Indonesia has three times as many dead, but it has more than seven times the population.) In Indonesia, India and Thailand, the damage was largely confined to one geographical area, while 70 percent of Sri Lanka's 830-mile coastline was swept by the roiling waters. 1/5/05
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Ashley Gilberston / Aurora
November 2004 - In Falluja US marines control most of this Iraqi city, with rebels hemmed into a narrow strip. US officials say insurgents are now in "small pockets", while fighting continues for control of the centre. These are some of the photographs shot by Aurora photographer Ashley Gilberston, who has been covering Iraq since before the war began.
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Arizona East Valley Tribune
Aurora brings you a selection of interesting images from the US Presidential debates on October 14, 2004. The complete set of images may be seen by searching for "80847*".
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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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Pierre Abensur/Pixsil/Aurora
After more than a year of daily news from Iraq, a look at the Christians who have been part of the region. Isolated and anxious from the rise of Moslem fundamentalism, the Christians of Iraq seek to leave their country, but they don't and persevere.
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James Heil/Aurora
Looting over the weekend overwhelmed Port Au Prince and Jean-Bertrand Aristide departs for Africa. Armed rebel leaders swept into this capital and occupied the national police headquarters.
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Jim Lo Scalzo/US News/Aurora
At about 19 million acres, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is the largest refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge System. On Alaska's North Slope, it is about the size of the state of North Carolina. The refuge's 1002 Area, about the size of the state of Delaware, is the center of statewide and national debate over oil exploration in the refuge. Read moreÉ.
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Jim Lo Scalzo/US News/Aurora
Iowa in winter can be a lonely landscape--stark, frozen, and seemingly uninhabited. Yet in the months preceding the Iowa caucuses, inside countless diners and VFW halls, a second landscape emerges, one where the state's provincial populace hobnobs with presidential contenders.
There is a saying that nobody in Iowa decides whom they will vote for until they have had breakfast with him twice. Indeed, the caucuses create an unlikely privilege: the chance for a reserved, rural state to determine a presidential frontrunner.
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Stephen Alvarez/Aurora
A recent peace accord brings hope and not a little cynicism for the refugees of Sudan’s long standing civil war. Read On.
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Todd Bigelow/Aurora
Red Hot Poker...The nation is being swept up in Poker fever as evident in the latest
"reality tv" program drawing 5 million viewers each week to the Travel Channel's World Poker Tour program. So what's next?
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Ed Kashi/Aurora
American forces in Iraq consumed more than 200,000 gallons of water and roughly a million gallons of fuel every day—all of which had to be trucked hundreds of miles into Iraq from Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.
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Melina Mara/Aurora
Changing the Face of Power - Women are transforming this country's most prestigious governing body. Their bi-partisan teamwork, compassion for social issues, and coalition building, are laying a foundation for a new type of politician.
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Todd Bigelow/ Aurora
Migrant workers routinely embark on dangerous border crossings seeking jobs in the US. A crackdown by the border patrol has changed the conditions of routes and methods of obtaining entry.
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Lukasz Trzcinski/Aurora
The young Polish photographer Lukasz Trzcinski presents a small look (in 12 b&w photos) inside the post-war Iraq and the Iraqi society after the regime collapsed.
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Katja Heinemann/Aurora
World War II takes place each year in Reading, Pennsylvania. There are bombed-out French villages constructed of plywood, vintage trucks, machine guns and jeeps, and lot's of GIs and German soldiers participating mock battles.
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Ashley Gilbertson/Aurora
Fighting here has been very intense and the Kurds are fighting under command of US special forces soldiers on a daily basis. This frontline has been held up for five days now in it's advance to Mosul, the oil rich city controlled by Saddam.
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Andrew Lichtenstein/Aurora
Nowhere is the explosion of the information age more dramaticthan in Jerusalem. Next door neighbors are watching two completelydifferent versions of the war.
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Katja Heinemann/Aurora
Images around New York City of public saturation of the media coverage. Many protesters are specifically targeting the networks with their messages.
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Nina Berman/Aurora
In Oakland California, on a decommissioned naval base, 200 7th and 8thgrade children in military uniforms line up in platoon formation...
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Franco Pagetti/Cosmos/Aurora
IRAQ- BAGHDAD 26/03/2003 A Missile hit a very popular market in Al Shaab district, at 11.30 in the morning. More than 50 people were injured andbetween 15 to 18 died.
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Ashley Gilbertson/Aurora
2003.03.27 Hareer Air strip, Northern Iraq US special forces patrol the air strip, about two hours north of Erbil, after reports claim that 1000 troops landed here last night.
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Nina Berman/Aurora
Photograp hs by Nina Berman
On March 23, 2003 Supporters of the Iraq war, turn out for a support President Bush and the troops demonstration in Times Square sponsored by the Christian Coalition, pro-Israeli groups, and conservative organizations.
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Ashley Gilbertson/Aurora
Paul Moran, a freelance cameraman working for ABC Australia, died in an attack which authorities here have attributed to Ansar al-Islam, a fundamentalist Islamic group in the region
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ghdad, Iraq, March 20, 2003 A US bomb or missile lands on the Eastern outskirts of Baghdad at dawn, about an hour after the first explosions and anti-aircraft activities were heard in the Iraqi capital. Iraqis show defiance in the streets of B
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Photographs by Pascal Maitre/Cosmos
The Somali peace talks currently underway in Kenya (March 2003) are in danger of collapsing. What is it like in Mogadishu today?
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Lynn Johnson/Aurora
A black man James Byrd, Jr. was chained to the back of a pick-up truck and dragged to his death by three white supremacists. Jasper Texas has been brought into the spotlight by a PBS documentary.
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Photographs by Ashley Gilbertson
An up to date in depth view of life in Kurdistan. A nation that does not technically exist yet manages to survive caught between religion, politics and geography.
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Lynn Johnson/Aurora
In remembrance of last year's tragedy, Aurora would like to share with you Lynn Johnson's diary of her experience in her words and images.
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David Blumenfeld/Aurora
At the heart of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, these settlements stand at the edge between domestic calm and all out war.
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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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Nina Berman/Aurora
This is the story of Afghanistan as it was before the events of September 11th, at a time when the world's focus was not on this dry, Middle Eastern country and the Taliban reigned supreme.
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Chris Anderson/Aurora
Chris Anderson visits a remote district in the Afghan mountains where the people are suffering from starvation, disease, extreme weather conditions, and the Taliban.
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Robb Kendrick/Aurora
Former Enron head Kenneth Lay joins a long list of Enron excutives who refuse to cooperate with the investigation of the energy giant's collapsed company.
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Brad Markel/Aurora
President Bush gives his State of the Union address to Congress on 1/29/02 .Vice President Dick Cheney and Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert sit behind Bush.
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Photographs by Andrew Lichtenstein
New York City continues to recover from the devastating events of September 11th. The huge pile of rubble that resulted from the collapse of both World Trade Center buildings has mostly been cleared away from
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Jose Azel/Aurora
Get in the spirit of the Winter Olympics! Competition may be fierce but sportsmanship defines the Olympic Games, celebrating it's nineteenth occurance in Salt Lake City on February 8th, 2002.
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Photographs by Chris Hamilton
Where the Murrah Federal building once stood, a National Memorial has been erected to honor the memories of men, women and children killed in the bombing of April 19, 1995.
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Andrew Lichtenstein/Aurora
Meet the families of the victims of police brutality and bear witness to how they have been affected by this social menace.
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