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archives at the UN hold a wide range of photographs from around the world.
We have a selection of these pictures stored in our gallery for you to look
at and download. Just click on the thumbnail and you will get a high-resolution
image. [Be aware that
these images may take some time to download.]
A UN Staff Photographer provides a personal anecdote to go along with each picture.
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"This
is at a holy city on the river Ganges in India. The name of the city is
Varanassi. Women have washed their traditional clothing, the Sari, and are
drying them outside."
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"I
was just driving through Oregon and caught site of this beautiful scenery
with an old lady on the beach."
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"This
photo was taken in Oruro, Bolivia. The mother and child were in a dentist's
office. Everytime the dentist would tell the mother to say 'aaah', the child
would open his mouth wide just like the mother."
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"These
are Arab nomads in Nara, Mali in west Africa. It was during the terrible
drought in the Sahel. The women and children stay at a specific point and
the men go farther looking for water."
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"I
was working for UNICEF when I took this photo. It was a food for work programme
in Mekelle, Ethiopia. They were building a small dam and they'd work for
a day and get 2 kilos of wheat in return."
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"There
is not much of a story to this, except for the subject itself: these are
female monks in Bhutan."
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"I
was taking photos during a census in China, when I came across this medical
center. It was a center for herbal medecine."
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"I
believe these were some of the first women who were involved in the Graameen
bank project in Bangladesh. The project was very successful in providing
start-up funds for small-scale businesses run by women. At that time I was
travelling in Bangladesh with Audrey Hepburn who was a goodwill ambassador
for UNICEF."
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"Coffee
beans can make a spectacular sight. Here coffee beans are being dried in
Coorg, India."
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"I
took this photo during the war in Afghanistan. I was photographing hand
pumps for UNICEF and these kids just happened to come down to fetch water
from the pump."
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"Suleymaniye,
Iraq. Right after the Gulf war. This was probably the roughest trip I've
ever done. This photo shows Kurdish refugees crossing over the border."
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"This
is a very symbolic photo for me. The sun is rising over Namibia, over a
mother and child, the present and the future. It's symbolic because I took
it when Namibia became independent, that historic moment when the Apartheid-era
South African flag came down and the Namibian flag was raised. It was a
new dawn for Namibia."
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"The
UN had a significant role to play in assisting with democratic elections
in Cambodia after years of internal conflict and oppression. I was in Phnom
Penh to capture the elections and I came across a traditional dance performance.
Before democracy, artists were driven out and forced to work in the fields.
They weren't allowed to practice their art. I spoke to one dancer who said
that at night, after work, she would quietly practice in the dark just so
that she wouldn't forget. Now, after more than ten years there's been something
of a revival of the traditional dance."
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