Children have to stand under a sun lamp every day in the Russian northern port of Murmansk where there is permanent night.
Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow; Irina Zibrova, a young corps de ballet dancer backstage tying up her ballet shoe, 1995.
Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow; adjusting point shoes backstage, 1997
Sviblova, writer and director, curator of the Moscow House of Photography, 2002.
Riche class of Russia; strippers at Hollywood Nites club on Nievsky Prospect in the centre of St Petersburg, 2001.
Riche class of Russia; newly opened trendy Japanese restaurant in downtown Moscow, 2001.
Tbilisi, Georgia; candles are lit during a church service, 1999.
Sulphur baths, Georgia, 2002.
Sulphur baths in Tbilisi, Georgia. 1991.
Hasidim, Jewish New Year, Uman, Ukraine, 1996
Hasidim, Jewish New Year, Uman, Ukraine, 1996
Hasidim, Jewish New Year, Uman, Ukraine, 1996
Hasidim, Jewish New Year, Uman, Ukraine, 1996
Russian Village
Georgia; Abkhazian mother child refugees in Tbilisi subway, 1999.
Trans-Siberian rail journey - people on a bus in Yekaterinburg, the Urals, 1997
Sechuan Province, China, a young child on the Chengdu to Songpan Road, 1998
China’s economic reforms, 1998
China’s economic reforms, 1998
China’s economic reforms, 1998
China’s economic reforms, miners enriching coal in makeshift pits by the roadside near Chongquing, 1999
Rebirth of a nation, Afghanistan, 2001
Rebirth of a nation; female teachers registering for work after 5 years of forced unemployment, the Aishee Dorani high school for girls, Afghanistan, 2001.
Rebirth of a nation; a soldier is treated by a Russian doctor in a tent hospital set up by Russians soldiers, Afghanistan, 2001.
Rebirth of a nation; women waiting for carts to take home the sacks of wheat donated through the World Food Programme; Kabul, Afghanistan, 2001
Rebirth of a nation; 11 year old boy in a workshop making satellite tv dishes where he earns $1 per month. Kabul, Afghanistan, 2001
Pilgrimage to Velikaya river, Russia, 1995. Russian Orthodox believers rest as and when the priest announces a stop.
Pilgrims on a six day pilgrimage in Russia to the Velikaya River, 2000.
Babushkas shelter from the rain during a pilgrimage by putting plastic bags over their heads, 2002.
A babushka on a pilgrimage in North Russia wearing a plastic bag to shelter her from the rain. They walk for six days, 2000.
Pilgrims crawl through the roots of a tree at the end of a 3 day pilgrimage without sleep for a miracle, 2000.
Russian pilgrim immerses himself in a holy spring during a pilgrimage on the Velikaya River, 2000.
Pilgrims rest during a rare stop on their six day, 160 mile pilgrimage to the Velikaya River in northern Russia, 2000.
A babushka lies exhausted on a table in a derelict church on the third day of a pilgrimage with only 2 hours sleep a night, 2000.
Velikaya River Pilgrimage, in northern Russia. Reflections of the pilgrims, 2002.
Russian orthodox priest with a child during a six day pilgrimage to the Velikaya River with only a few days sleep a night, 2002.
Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India; women drying sarees in the breeze, 2001.
Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India; as the sun sets and pilgrims return to their camps, smoke from wood fires creates a thick smog, 2001.
Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India, 2001
Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India, 2001.
Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India; a pilgrim gives rice to beggars, 2001.
Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India; millions have gathered at the confluence of the Yamuna and Ganges rivers, 2001.
Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India; pilgrims fetch drinking water in the early morning mist, 2001.
Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India; naked naga sadhus charge into the Ganges, 2001