Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Kathmandu, Nepal

At Swayambhunath, a Buddhist religious complex in Kathmandu, Nepal, a video is shot of a traditional Tamang Selo dance and a song called “When I See My Love” (“Maya Lai Dekhe”). The Tamang people practice Buddhism, and many of their songs are influenced by Buddhist hymns.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Isauro Vidal (left) dances to drum and flute music on the patio of the Intercultural University of Chiapas (Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas) in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, during the Sexual Diversity Fair (Feria de la Diversidad Sexual). The documentary “Las Chuntá,” a film about the men who dress as women once a year for Chiapa de Corzo’s Grand Festival (Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo), was shown during the event. Chiapa de Corzo is a city in Chiapas state.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Carnegie, Oklahoma

Derral Davis fishes at the Carnegie Dam, an old hydroelectric dam on the Washita River in Carnegie, Oklahoma. “It’s been several years back, but I once caught a 42-pound flathead on that west side of the dam off the top of that wall,” Davis says. “That’s why I keep coming back here."

Photo by Amanda Hill

Mexico City, Mexico

At art education workshops at the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Unidad de Vinculación Artística del Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco) in Mexico City, Oscar Millán Arrieta plays during a monthly “fandango,” a popular singing, dancing and peaceful coexistence festival that originated in the state of Veracruz. At the center, Millán Arrieta teaches workshops on “son jarocho,” or traditional music from Veracruz.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Harare, Zimbabwe

Dzidzai Masasa, of Mabvuku, a suburb east of Harare, Zimbabwe, waters her garden, which produces rapeseed, covo and other leafy vegetables to feed her family or to be sold in her community. The suburb has not had running water for more than five years due to old pipes, so Masasa uses water from her home’s well.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

Koteshwor, Nepal

Sunita Khadka (right) buys vegetables from Dhan Kumari Thapa, who uses a motorcycle to sell her produce in Koteshwor, a city in Kathmandu District, Nepal. Vendors use parked motorcycles next to this busy footpath to sell their vegetables before the monsoon season, which comes between June and August.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Mexico City, Mexico

With the temperature at 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in Mexico City, Claudia, 5, (left) Lupita, 6, and other visitors to Alameda Central, a downtown public park, refresh themselves by playing in a water fountain. Dozens of people also crowded around the fountain to be cooled off by the breeze from the water.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Kampala, Uganda

Moses Sekisaka cleans a taxi at a car wash in Mulago, a suburb of Kampala, Uganda. Sekisaka, who has been washing cars for four years, makes 10,000 to 20,000 Ugandan shillings ($2.70 to $5.40) per vehicle, depending on the size.

Photo by Apophia Agiresaasi

Ignacio, Colorado

Nana Manson, of Blue Gap, Arizona, and her granddaughter WynterRose McReeves, of Tohatchi, New Mexico, wait with other dancers for the grand entry, before the start of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Powwow and Bear Dance in Ignacio, Colorado. Native American dancers from all over the United States come together every year to dance into the powwow together.

Photo by Crystal Ashike

Kathmandu, Nepal

At a stupa, or shrine, called the Monkey Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, this simian grasps a juice carton. The stupa is part of the Swayambhunath complex, atop a hill. The many monkeys that make the shrine their home sometimes steal food from tourists and Buddhist pilgrims.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Harare, Zimbabwe

In Tafara, a suburb east of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, Tadiwa Hunzvi, 4, (right) and other children enjoy finding and playing with old tires. The kids race one another to see who can roll the tires the fastest.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

Kathmandu, Nepal

Members of the Shri Krishna Pranami religious community read the “Shri Tartam Sagar,” a holy book about Krishna, a supreme Hindu god, during a gathering in Gothatar, a village in Kathmandu, Nepal. The god’s devotees believe that reading the book will bring them happiness and peace.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sandra Urquiza works with other members of The Dawn of the Recyclers (El Amanecer de los Cartoneros), a cooperative that sorts and sells recyclables at Parque Patricios Green Center (Centro Verde de Parque Patricios) in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. This cooperative is one of 12 working in the city to collect and recycle raw materials.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Mparo, Uganda

At their home in Mparo, a town in Uganda’s Rukiga District, brothers Peter Niwagaba (right), 17, and John Ruhija, 8, feed their rabbits and clean the hutch to keep the animals healthy. When the rabbits are fully grown, the brothers will sell them for about 30,000 Ugandan shillings ($8.07), which they’ll use to pay school fees.

Photo by Edna Namara

Nyundo, Rwanda

Francois Samvura (right) and Pasteur Nsabumuremyi cut lumber for customers in the Nyundo sector of Rwanda’s Rubavu district. They camp near the trees and usually cut two or three per day.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Kathmandu, Nepal

Jigme Tsechos (foreground) is one of the 60 nuns from the White Monastery (Seto Gompa), of the Drukpa Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, who clean the Swayambhunath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. These nuns, who also clean other stupas and temples around Kathmandu to help keep the environment healthy, work on this stupa every Saturday.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala

In San Andrés Semetabaj, a municipality in Sololá, Guatemala, Alirio López, 63, places soda cans on a road so that passing cars will crush them. Alirio recycles the cans into kitchen utensils.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Kampala, Uganda

Sarah Bukirwa (right) tries to block Irene Bukirwa from scoring a point at the Muteesa I Royal University interfaculty netball tournament held at their Kampala, Uganda campus. Irene’s team, made up of faculty members from the science, art and information technology school, defeated Sarah’s team from the business and management school by a score of 7-4. The two players aren’t related.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Swiss tourist Lailah Rottinger (center) visits an exhibit of talking and animated mannequins dressed as brides and grooms, at the Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The exhibit, titled “Love is Love. Marriage Equality According to Jean Paul Gaultier” (“Amor es Amor. El matrimonio igualitario según Jean Paul Gaultier”), showcases 35 wedding outfits by Gaultier, the French designer, and celebrates love and diversity.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Kampala, Uganda

Eva Tuhilirwe collects used plastic bottles at the Kalerwe Market in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Tuhilirwe, a single mother of two, sells about 40 to 60 kilograms (88 to 132 pounds) per week to plastic-bottle manufacturers for recycling.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Chimaltenango, Guatemala

Abraham Bámaca Chalí (second from right), Ixchel Tuyuc Cux (right) and other members of Grupo Xajil, a band from San Juan Comalapa, play the marimba in Guatemala’s Chimaltenango department. The group performs ancestral music for sacred ceremonies, art circles and cultural activities around the world. The name Xajil, in the Mayan Kaqchiquel language, translates to dancing musician.

Photo by Norma Baján Balán

Mexico City, Mexico

Every day, Daniel Canul, 22, spends five or six hours juggling for tips from the passing vehicles at a traffic stop in central Mexico City. Canul, who has been juggling for the past five years, earns about 300 Mexican pesos ($15.32) per day from this self-taught talent.

Photo by Mar García

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

In the commune of Turgeau in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, conservator Franck Louissaint (foreground), 69, and his trainee Marc Gerard Estimé restore a 1988 painting by Edouard Duval-Carrié that depicts heroes of Haitian independence. Louissaint, who is a painter himself, has been restoring art since the 2010 earthquake, which left many works of cultural heritage damaged or destroyed.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Harare, Zimbabwe

Divine Kaliofasi (left), 7, plays table football with bus drivers and conductors at the commuter park in the city center of Harare, Zimbabwe. Playing the game, locally known as “slug,” costs 25 cents in Zimbabwean bond coins. Many drivers and conductors play while they wait for passengers to board commuter buses.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

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