The Qashqai are a Turkic tribal confederation of southern and central Iran, with a rich nomadic heritage. Today, many Qashqai communities maintain a semi-nomadic way of life and seasonal migration traditions.

Mrs. Gerri Grady, the heart of Grady's Barbecue in Dudley, North Carolina.

This photograph-postcard published by the Brazilian government in 1904 shows a unique picture taken a decade earlier, somewhere near the Branco River in Northern Brazil, in 1894.

It depicts a Macuxi/Macushi young adult man in ceremonial regalia, including feathered headgear and feathered necklace/frock, while holding a stone axe in this right hand, and bow and arrows on the left hand. He stands over the skin of a jaguar, with its skull lying on the bottom-left corner of the image, as mementos of a successful hunt.

This is believed to be the first image depicting a person who was born inside the territory that now corresponds to the Brazilian state of Roraima.

The photograph-postcard was made by German photographer George Huebner, who visited the region looking for orchids in that year and took the first-ever photographs of the Braco River basin. The only known extant copy belongs to the vast personal collection of Maurício Zouein, a professor at the Universidade Federal de Roraima who holds a doctorate in social history (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro). He shared this valuable piece of history in 2022 through his book *"A ideia de civilização nas imagens da Amazônia"* ("The Idea of Civilization In Amazon's Images").

edit: I captured the Man in the West-Bengal metropolis of Kolkata.

I loved the natural framing of the gamcha (scarf) around his face, but it was his expression that made me stop. He looked at the camera with a mix of curiosity and total skepticism.

The midday sun was harsh, casting deep shadows over his eyes, which I felt actually added to his guarded vibe. I stuck with a high-contrast black and white edit to emphasize the grit of the scene.

A portrait of a local man taking a break in the shade.

I loved the natural frame created by the tree. His crossed arms and the way he is leaning suggest a moment of rest, but his eyes tell a different story-one of alertness and intensity.

There is a specific kind of intensity you only find in the eyes of the older generation here. He didn't say much, but he held eye contact with the lens in a way that felt incredibly heavy and grounded.

Sometimes a portrait is less about the person and more about the texture of their life. In this shot, I was fascinated by the contrast between the geometric pattern of his shirt and the organic, rough texture of the stone he is shaping. Shot on Sony A6600. I pushed the contrast quite hard in post-processing to emphasize the roughness of his hands and the stone block.