Portraits

[ROMANIA.TRANSYLVA 24.176] ’Old man at Ighisu Vechi.’ The South Transylvanian village of Ighisu Vechi is located in the hills between Sibiu and Agnita. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[ROMANIA.TRANSYLVA 24.175] ’Boy at Ighisu Vechi.’ The South Transylvanian village of Ighisu Vechi is located in the hills between Sibiu and Agnita. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[BURMA 24.753] ’Carrying flowers.’ North of Taungoo a woman is on her way to sell flowers at the market. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[BURMA 24.747] ’Girl with brooms.’ On a road north of Taungoo, this girl, her face enlivened by thanaka make-up, is on her way to sell little brooms at the market. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[BURMA 24.849] ’Donom, a Padaung woman (I).’ Donom, a woman from the Padaung tribe, lives currently in Indein, a village on the west shore of the Inle Lake. She has sought refuge here from political unrest in her home Kayah State, which lies south of the Inle Lake. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[ANTILLES.stMAARTEN 25.632] ’Carnival-2.’ On St.Maarten, carnival is usually celebrated during the second half of April. This image was shot just outside Philipsburg during the preparations of the Grand Parade. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[ANTILLES.stMAARTEN 25.638] ’Carnival-4.’ On St.Maarten, carnival is usually celebrated during the second half of April. This image was shot just outside Philipsburg during the preparations of the Grand Parade. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[ANTILLES.stMAARTEN 25.693] ’Ras Bushman.’ In Philipsburg, Ras Bushman runs a vegetarian restaurant called “Freedom Fighters Ital Shack”. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[VIETNAM.NORTH 21.388] ’Black Dao women under umbrella.’ Black Dao women wear plain black trousers and jackets finished with a superb red ruff. The hair on their forehead is plucked (including the eyebrows) so that it cannot distract from the beauty of their clothing. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[VIETNAM.NORTH 21.428] ’Taking a nap.’ A Red Dao woman has dozed off in the sewing atelier on the market of Sapa. Photo Mick Palarczyk

[VIETNAM.NORTH 21.440] ’Black H’mong girls.’ East of Sapa, in Tavan village, these Black H’mong girls wear the traditional black circular hats of their tribe. Photo Mick Palarczyk

[VIETNAM.NORTH 21.376] ’White Thai villager.’ North of Lai Châu, this old farmer from a White Thái village in the valley of the Na River is old enough to remember a few words of French from the colonial period. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[CHINA.GUANGXI 25.289] ’Surrounded by village elder.’ A shaman pupil and his mother are surrounded by village elder in their temple during a New Year festivities at San Wang Miao, a village of the Miao mountain tribe. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[ROMANIA.TRANSYLVA 24.134] ’Roma girl.’ Roma girl at Valea Strîmba standing in a decorated gate typical of the houses of the Hungarian minority living in the region around Georgheni. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[ROMANIA.MARAMURES 23.765] ’Villager of Botiza.’ Botiza is an isolated village in the Carpathians 25 km south of the Ukraine border. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[BURMA 24.791] ’Market of Pindaya.’ Old woman selling fruit and nuts on the market of Pindaya. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[BURMA 24.902] ’Smoking a cheroot.’ At Nyaung U on the Bagan plain, an old woman is smoking a cheroot in the courtyard of the Shwezigon Pagoda. Cheroots are very mild Burmese cigars that contain only a small amount of tobacco mixed with other leaves, roots and herbs. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[BURMA 25.017] ’Girl at Inwa.’ At Inwa, the former royal city south of Mandalay, a girl is showing off her thanaka make-up. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[ANTILLES.stMAARTEN 25.641] ’Carnival-6.’ On St.Maarten, carnival is usually celebrated during the second half of April. This image was shot just outside Philipsburg during the preparations of the Grand Parade. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[ANTILLES.stMAARTEN 25.647] ’Carnival-10.’ On St.Maarten, carnival is usually celebrated during the second half of April. This image was shot just outside Philipsburg during the preparations of the Grand Parade. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[ANTILLES.stEUSTATIUS 25.598] ’Lynch Plantation School.’ A visit to the Lynch Plantation School gives a good impression of the multi-ethnic background of the island population. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[VIETNAM.NORTH 21.327] ’Girl with knife.’ As most mountain tribe children this Black Thái girl has learned very early on in life to do daily work with sharp tools. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[VIETNAM.NORTH 21.338] ’Selling plastic.’ In mountain tribe villages that still mostly use selfmade crockery and wooden tools this pedlar is an herald of modern times. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[VIETNAM.NORTH 21.504] ’Psychedelic embrace.’ Flower H’mong girls on the market of Bac Hà wear a psychedelic combination of colours. Photo Mick Palarczyk

[BRITAIN.ENGMIDDLE 22.034] ’At the tiller.’ The proud owner of an old narrow boat on the Caldon Canal, at Cheddleton. Photo Mick Palarczyk.