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The life and work of “Snowflake Bentley”

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Vermont farmer Wilson Bentley, the first person to photograph and study the complexity of snow crystals, died 87 years ago today: "On the morning he was laid to rest... it began to snow, leaving a dusting over the burial ground."

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With sulfur miners in the Indonesian jungle

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"The more I read about it, the clearer it became to me that this has got to be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. My curiosity forced me to take a trip to Ijen, to document their work with my camera. This experience changed my life."

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United Nations of Chungking Mansions

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"Today, the Hong Kong building's inhabitants and visitors vary from budget travelers to tourists; businessmen to traders; sex workers to drug dealers; asylum seekers to economic migrants; charity workers to ordinary punters."

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Polynesia and the accidental tattoo model

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On her transition into adulthood, she lent a French Polynesian tattoo artist a piece of her skin for his art, and ended up part of the living archive at Leipzig's Grassi Museum - connecting with her own history and others' in ways she couldn't have imagined.

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