Amanda Rivkin

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BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. The Caspian beach in Sixov in Bibi Heybat section on July 4, 2010. With offshore oil installations and an abundance of trash, the Sixov beach is only frequented by the rural and downtrodden from the Azerbaijani regions beyond Baku who cannot afford the private beaches where the elite go to isolate themselves.
   
MOSCOW SHEREMETYEVO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, RUSSIA. A model of an American astronaut on the bar of the TGI Fridays at the Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, Terminal D on January 31, 2012.
   
REYHANLI, TURKEY. Syrian children play in a junkyard of old, abandoned and destroyed vehicles at the entrance to the Reyhanli tent city in Reyhanli, Turkey on February 26, 2012. As the year old rebellion against the rule of Bashar Al-Assad continues just across the border in Syria, Turkey has seen a continued influx of refugees from the Syrian conflict but has not granted them refugee status and instead considers them to be "guests" of Turkey; Turkey's border with Syria is just one hour from the Ceyhan Marine Terminal where the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline ends its 1,100 mile journey at the Mediterranean port.
     
  
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Stag and soon to be married (second from left) Michael Klos, 23, receives a table top lap dance as friends (l-r) Roald de Jongh, 24, Ronald Stelt, 23 and Herman Bruinslol, 23, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands look on at Hot Peppers in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
   
AJKA, HUNGARY. The rupture in the toxic red alumina sludge reservoir as seen from the top of a remaining piece of the reservoir's wall at the MAL plant on November 22, 2010, that sent a torrent of toxic red alumina sludge pouring into the surrounding countryside, several villages including Kolontar and Devecser and resulted in the death of ten individuals, including a 14 months old baby, injured hundreds and left several families homeless.
   
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Young people gather for a concert at Kino Bosna, a former movie theater, on December 17, 2012.
     
  
NICOSIA, CYPRUS. Foreign domestic workers from the Philippines enter Tripoli Park on March 24, 2013. As the IMF, the EU and Cyprus hammer out a deal in Brussels to save the Cypriot banking sector, known for its abundance of offshore accounts, many in Cyprus have withdrawn as much as they can from their accounts at ATMs and are fearful for what the coming week might hold; domestic workers say that many of their friends have been sent home to their native countries as their bosses struggle to pay them.
   
KOSICE, SLOVAKIA. An old woman or babka walks down the Main Street early in the morning on June 3, 2010.
   
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. Women huddle together under umbrellas amidst throngs of worshippers on St. Teklahaymanot Day at the Teklahaymanot Church on August 30, 2007.
     
  
TIMOTESUBANI, GEORGIA. Worshippers during Sunday mass in the Timotesubani Church on July 25, 2010. Located in the Borjomi gorge, the Timotesubani Church and monastic complex is a few kilometers from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline route, making it perhaps the most religious sites along the BTC route in Georgia, the only Christian country traversed by the oil pipeline.
   
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. A concert in Preston Bradley hall at the Chicago Public Library and Cultural Center, a Chicago landmark, at 78 E. Washington on March 23, 2009. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)
   
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. A mother and child before the Ford press previews at the Detroit Auto Show on January 11, 2009.
     
  
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Owner Mike Elsheikh styles Angela Brumfield's hair at Obama's Hair Design at 430 S. Dearborn in downtown Chicago on January 9, 2009. Obama's Hair Design was formerly a very established local salon named Osama's Hair Design before a change of ownership forced the new name on Nov. 3, 2008, the day before Barack Obama's historic election victory. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Agence France Presse - Getty Images)
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Customers pass through an "Agropecuario," the ubiquitous state-subsidized fruit and vegetable market where each Cuban receives rations at a below-market subsidized price that they purchase with their ration cards and Cuban national pesos, on March 7, 2010.
   
MADRID, SPAIN. Two men marvel at a pair of drag queens walking by on the street in the Chueca neighborhood on June 29, 2007 during the Europride celebrations. Before Chueca's transformation into the center of gay life in the Spanish capital, drug addicts and dealers made life uncomfortable for many of the neighborhood's elderly residents who credit the gay community for the neighborhood's renaissance. One long-time Chueca resident was quoted in the Spanish newspaper El Pais, "Better gays than drug addicts."
     
  
ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Two women are seen in the backseat of an SUV exiting Istanbul Fashion Week outside Antreppo 3, a warehouse-like venue on the Boshporous in Tophane, after the Soul by Ozgur Masur fashion show on October 12, 2012.
   
ERZURUM, TURKEY. A Turkish picnicker rocks her child as he sleeps in a hammock at a site near the Ataturk University in Erzurum, Turkey, the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport, on August 8, 2010.
   
BILGEH, AZERBAIJAN. The Bilgeh Estates villas outside Baku, Azerbaijan on the Absheron Peninsula house some of Azerbaijan's few well manicured lawns as seen from the air on July 15, 2010. Azerbaijan's tremendous wealth gap has placed the elite in a stratosphere above the rest of society and left the rest of the country behind in often near feudal conditions; prices at Bilgeh Estates begin at $2,400 for one week during the off season and soar to $5,400 a week in the peak summer months.
     
  
HAVANA, CUBA. Cuban children aged nine and ten wait their turn on the baseball field, a national pass time, at a track and field arena beside the Straights of Florida on March 9, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Cuban children aged nine and ten play baseball, a national pass time, at a track and field arena beside the Straights of Florida on March 9, 2010.
   
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. Alicia Barrera Rosales, 32, awaits a ritual bath in the courtyard of Margarita Velasco Ortega's house on June 23, 2008. Barrera Rosales visited Velasco Ortega's stall at the Mercado de Sonora four days before seeking help with her romantic and financial future.
     
  
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. Couples make out on a dock on the Bulvar, the Caspian seaside promenade, in the middle of the afternoon on May 4, 2012.
   
NEAR DEBRE BIRHAN, ETHIOPIA. A woman rides her horse down a muddy trail during the wet season five kilometers southwest of Debre Birhan, Ethiopia on September 2, 2007. As Ethiopians in the capital Addis Ababa prepare for the Coptic millennium celebrations on September 11, 2007, life in the countryside continues with little fanfare. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Associated Press)
   
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. The Ethiopian patriarch visits the Holy Trinity Church, where former Emperor Halle Selassie's tomb rests, on the eve of the Coptic millenium, September 11, 2007. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Associated Press)