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  • Photograph by Aaron Goccia Inside Malaysia’s Most Mysterious Festival

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Wall art, Nepal

High Five

The walls of houses in the Himalayan foothills are often decorated with handprints. Allison Davies sends this photo.

Photograph by Nevada Wier

‘Better on Dirt Than Concrete’

Photographer Nevada Wier tells the story behind a wild picture from western China.

Patrick Stickles (second from right) with members of Titus Andronicus

Racism Sucks

On tour with American punk rock band Titus Andronicus: “We take poison and we turn it into medicine.”

Sikh guard at the Golden Temple. Photograph by Aaron Goccia

Temple of Gold: Pictures from Amritsar

The Golden Temple, the holiest site in the Sikh religion, draws tens of thousands of pilgrims daily. Photographer Aaron Goccia sends these images.

Tangier night. Photograph by Dale Beckett

Port of Shadows

Reconciling the old and new Tangier, Morocco: “I kept catching traces of the city of shadows, kept hearing faint whispers of what had once been the long and steady howl.”

Photograph by Rachel Pieh Jones

The Hard Work of Unemployment

Women cooking over open fires in front of huts, men cutting hair with razor blades, children sorting trash. These are the faces of Djibouti’s jobless.

Colonsay, Inner Hebrides. Photograph by Victor Bayon

Ancestral Echoes

Jarred McAfee goes in search of his last name in Scotland: “In the end, perhaps the outside elements are what unite us. Perhaps what flows from without trumps what flows from within.”