KUWAIT. Safwan. 1991. US soldier in front of oil wells in fire. | License

KUWAIT. 1991. US soldiers and helicopters in front of burning oil fields. | License

IRAN. Lorestan province. Ali Abad village. Women mourn in the village cemetery under snow. Sweets and fruits are offered to passerbys. 2001. | License

IRAN. Mazandaran Province. Near Zirab village. Rice planters' lunch. | License

IRAN. Tehran. 1997. Revolutionary mural. | License

BRAZIL. Juazeiro do Norte. Burial at cemetery | License

PHILIPPINES. Mount Banahao. 1995. Christian/pagan rites on the sacred mountain. Pilgrims are bathed and blessed. | License

MYANMAR. Yangon. Kyaik Ka San A Shay monastery. 2013. Buddhist novitiation ceremony for two young boys and members of their family. A woman applies soothing turmeric paste on the head of a novice whose hair has just been shaven with a razor. | License

CAMBODIA. Siem Reap. Young monks eat lunch in Wat Po Bun Thiay Jai. | License

INDIA. Rajasthan. Bundi. City life in front of a colourful porch with clothes hanged to dry. | License

INDIA. Uttar Pradesh. Allahabad. The Kumbh Mela. A sadhu in front of a billboard. | License

MALI. Segue-les-Pierres. 2002. Young girls use flower petals as make-up. | License

MALI. Segue-les-Pierres. 2002. At sunset, wind blows into a room. | License

INDIA. Uttar Pradesh. Varanasi. After a dip in the river Ganges, women pilgrims dry their saris. | License

NEPAL. Bhaktapur. 2011. A goat is sacrificed during Deo Puja, when young girls, in colourful dress, "marry" a mel tree fruit. Its blood feeds the family god on its altar. | License

PAKISTAN. 1988. A Pakistani woman wearing the nigab (Islamic veil) with her daughter. | License

IRAN. Tehran. 1997. Traditional tea house in Darband, on the slopes of Mount Elborz which dominate the capital. | License

MALI. Djenne. 1988. The great mosque, built in 1906-7 in the Sudanese style, using dried mud. | License