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Yvonne's face glows with youthful hope and optimism. She appears to be looking into the future.
This simple, yet powerful, photograph was an important element in a worldwide campaign to improve child health. Yvonne's image was used in the historic…

1983.jpg
What do we see here? A moment in time, capturing the exuberance of youth, the sun's dazzling brightness shimmering on the water's surface, the play of light and shadow against the children's silhouettes. Note the little human detail in the…

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Women in developing countries are the backbone of the family and the community. They grow the food and harvest it. They manage the household. They take care of the children and see to their health and education. We only have to look at this smiling…

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This image represents the style of photos commonly used in the mid-1980s to illustrate international development: a shot of simple rural life on a typical peasant farm in Egypt.
The composition of this pleasant, whimsical image is a tapestry of…

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The gaze of this young man is intense. He is photographed in contemporary dress in a traditional village in the Embu region of Kenya. We note the bold, horizontal bands of saturated colour and the asymmetry of the young man resting with his back…

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Often, the images in our photo library document the details of daily human life in developing countries. Many of these photos communicate the human face of international development, and aim to portray the lives and struggles of ordinary people.…

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A photographer's eye for composition can give an added dimension to a "slice of life" shot, offering a glimpse of how people dress and what their homes look like. Here, two men, possibly a father and an uncle in Sololá, Guatemala, watch with pride…

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This street scene introduces us to Gigi, 15, and her young sister, Guimi, as they walk to school in their smart school uniforms, passing street vendors along the way.

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A Touareg villager inspects the vegetables growing in his garden. The vegetables are flourishing due to an animal-powered well pump. Funded by Canada, this system helped local farmers pump more water into their irrigation systems faster and more…

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In 1991, we commissioned a photo shoot in Africa to document the effects of HIV/AIDS, during which photographer Bruce Paton captured this remarkable photo illustrating the enduring power of a photographic image to convey human emotion. This young…
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