Gion District the neighbourhood where Geisha live and perform. Three-quarter portrait of smiling Maiko or apprentice Geisha with hair pinned up with decorative ornaments white facial make up red...

Two Maiko apprentice Geisha wearing patterned kimono standing outside their house in the Gion District the neighbourhood where Geisha live study and perform.Far EastGeikotradtioncultureJapanes...

Gion District the neighbourhood where Geisha live study and perform. Geisha wearing a kimono and obi attending an English class and talking to the teacher at Mia Garatso school for Geisha and maik...

Gion area the neighbourhood where Geisha live study and perform. Two Geisha wearing kimono and wigs attend an English class at Mia Garatso school for Geisha seated with backs to camera looking towr...

Yabusame mounted archery at Hachimangu shrine festival. Horseback archery has been a feature of the shrine s festival since the early days of the Kamakura period 1192-1333 and this rider wears a sa...

Sumo wrestler throwing handfuls of salt into the ring as an act of purification. Sumo has close asociations with the Shinto religion with fights taking place beneath a symbolic Shinto-style roof.

Cropped detail of Ika man holding a poporo small gourd containing finely powdered lime.Ika men can spend hours rubbing their gourds with their palitos small sticks in ceremonies in conversation or in...

Coca leaves soaked in petrol for 24 hours to further leach out cocaine alkaloid. Liquid then poured off hydrochloric acid added to act as catalyst to form cocaine base then acetate and ether act as...

Children at spaza shop. Meaning camouflage spaza was the name given to house shops the only way for black South Africans to set up business in apartheid eraThe Land Acts Group Areas Act and Urban...

Men perform the Maraca Dance outside maloca wearing feather head-dresses bead nut amulets festive facial and body paint woven fibre garters nut ankle rattles monkey tooth belts green sweet-smel...

Saint Tropez. Bravade Festival with men in costume marching in a procession Celebrated anually on June the 15th Bravade meaning act of defiance

Saint Tropez. Bravade Festival with men in costume marching in a procession Celebrated anually on June the 15th Bravade meaning act of defiance