Delegates wearing ethnic minority costumes sit alongside attendants inside the Great Hall of the People ahead of the opening of the first session of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Co...

The 13th Panchen Lama, one who is officially recognised by the Chinese government, sits and chats with other delegates in the Great Hall of the People ahead of the opening of the first session of the...

A service held to consecrate the original site of St Michael's monastry in Kiev, demolished by Stalin during the 1930s. Attended by President Kuchma and his secret service agents, this event was seen...

Youths smoking cigarettes.

Youths smoking cigarettes.

A boy smoking a cigarette.

Young people dancing on a Saturday night at a youth club.

A fisherman feeds fish to his sledge dogs (huskies). For the dogs to survive outside in Greenland's low temperatures it is vital that they are properly fed. Which, in their case, is almost exclusively...

Surine Petersen, a teacher of shamanic dance, gives a performance in the Oqaatsu settlement where she conserves old Inuit storytelling traditions that she learnt from her father.

An old photograph of an Inuit man playing an instrument during a ceremony around 1920.

An old photograph of an Inuit couple standing outside a teepee.

An old photograph of a group of Inuit at a ceremony from around 1920.

An old photograph of a group of Inuit outside their houses which were made of stone with a mud covering and insulated with grass.

Fishermen in Ilulissat.

Inuit mothers and children in a church during a baptism ceremony.