Amanda Rivkin

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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.
   
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.
   
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.
     
  
NAFTALAN, AZERBAIJAN. Quliyev Jeyyub from Tartar, Karabakh in the disputed once Azerbaijani territory now occupied by Armenia, sits in an oil bath at the Sehirli Naftalan Health Center and Hotel on July 19, 2010. Naftalan is famous for its oil bath treatments across the former Soviet Union and several such treatment centers exist in the town; patients are only allowed to bath for 10 minutes before having oil scraped from their bodies by a nurse attendant and showering.
   
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.
   
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. Women huddle together under umbrellas amidst throngs of worshippers on St. Teklahaymanot Day at the Teklahaymanot Church on August 30, 2007.
     
  
HAVANA, CUBA. Cuban schoolchildren are brought to attention to recite the national hymn, which includes the verse "to die for the fatherland is to live," outside the Camilo Cienfuegos Primary School on March 10, 2010.
   
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. A mother and child before the Ford press previews at the Detroit Auto Show on January 11, 2009.
   
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)
     
  
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Free salsa concert at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millenium Park on July 23, 2009. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for Courrier Japon)
   
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."
   
PAMPLONA, SPAIN. An Australian tourist is carried on a stretcher by medical service staffers after suffering the first injury, a goring in the buttock, on the first day of the running of the bulls during the San Fermin fiestas on July 7, 2007. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Associated Press)
     
  
SDEROT, ISRAEL. Tents assembled the week before the Sderot film festival on May 29, 2008.
   
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.
  
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.
     
  
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)
   
KOSICE, SLOVAKIA. An old woman or babka walks down the Main Street early in the morning on June 3, 2010.
   
COSTUR, SPAIN. Men carry Jesus on the cross after arriving at the cavalry and cemetery above the town following a procession during the municipal fiestas in the town on August 16, 2009.
     
  
COSTUR, SPAIN. Locals hold candles after arriving at the cavalry and cemetery above the town of Costur following a procession during the municipal fiestas on August 16, 2009.