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Bob the flamingo visits the A E Goilo School in the Julianadorp district. Photo: Doest Photography/ Xposure Photo Festival
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Nomadic herders in the Russian tundra, who are being forced to change centuries-old migration patterns as rising temperatures reduce snow and affect vegetation. The series by Daniel Kordan is part of this year's Xposure International Photography Festival, organised by the Sharjah Government Media Bureau. Photo: Daniel Kordan/ Xposure Photo Festival
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'Normally one family lives far away from another — they need large territories for their reindeer to find some food' says Kordan. 'To visit other families as a guest I was traveling by snowmobile — like to this family it took me three hours to get.' Photo: Daniel Kordan/ Xposure Photo Festival
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The Statue of Liberty being repaired for her 100th Anniversary, in New York City
Photo: Frank Fournier/ Xposure Photo Festival
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People in New York's Manhattan district. Photo: Frank Fournier/ Xposure Photo Festival
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A tired attendant resting in a hospital common area in Bangladesh, amid the pandemic. Photo: Ibrahim Iqbal/ Xposure Photo Festival
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Stairs leading to the floors of the six-storey hospital building. Most patients, attendants, doctors, interns and medical students have to use these stairs, as the huge crowds simply outnumber the elevators. Photo: Ibrahim Iqbal/ Xposure Photo Festival
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Bob the rescued flamingo in a conservation area in the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao. Photo: Doest Photography/ Xposure Photo Festival
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A man walks between hundreds of tents in a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2015. Months after Nepal was hit by the earthquake, hundreds of thousands of people were still living in temporary shelters waiting for their homes to be rebuilt. Photo: Omar Havana/ Xposure Photo Festival
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A young girl bathes using plastic buckets in the Chhuchepati temporary camp on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Photo: Omar Havana/ Xposure Photo Festival
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Bob the flamingo visits the A E Goilo School in the Julianadorp district. Photo: Doest Photography/ Xposure Photo Festival
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Nomadic herders in the Russian tundra, who are being forced to change centuries-old migration patterns as rising temperatures reduce snow and affect vegetation. The series by Daniel Kordan is part of this year's Xposure International Photography Festival, organised by the Sharjah Government Media Bureau. Photo: Daniel Kordan/ Xposure Photo Festival
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'Normally one family lives far away from another — they need large territories for their reindeer to find some food' says Kordan. 'To visit other families as a guest I was traveling by snowmobile — like to this family it took me three hours to get.' Photo: Daniel Kordan/ Xposure Photo Festival
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The Statue of Liberty being repaired for her 100th Anniversary, in New York City
Photo: Frank Fournier/ Xposure Photo Festival
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People in New York's Manhattan district. Photo: Frank Fournier/ Xposure Photo Festival
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A tired attendant resting in a hospital common area in Bangladesh, amid the pandemic. Photo: Ibrahim Iqbal/ Xposure Photo Festival
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Stairs leading to the floors of the six-storey hospital building. Most patients, attendants, doctors, interns and medical students have to use these stairs, as the huge crowds simply outnumber the elevators. Photo: Ibrahim Iqbal/ Xposure Photo Festival
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Bob the rescued flamingo in a conservation area in the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao. Photo: Doest Photography/ Xposure Photo Festival
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A man walks between hundreds of tents in a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2015. Months after Nepal was hit by the earthquake, hundreds of thousands of people were still living in temporary shelters waiting for their homes to be rebuilt. Photo: Omar Havana/ Xposure Photo Festival
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A young girl bathes using plastic buckets in the Chhuchepati temporary camp on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Photo: Omar Havana/ Xposure Photo Festival
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Bob the flamingo visits the A E Goilo School in the Julianadorp district. Photo: Doest Photography/ Xposure Photo Festival
Sharjah's Xposure International Photography Festival 2022: five things to not miss
The event will run for a week from February 9 at Expo Centre Sharjah
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Alexandra Chaves
07 February, 2022
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