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  • Early morning at the new delhi train station.
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  • Fishermen at the beach in Ras al Hadd, Oman, 2011
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  • Old part of the Nizwa Souk, Oman 2011
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  • People waiting for treatment in the waiting area of the TASO Clinic in Kampala.
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  • Clients waiting at the indoor waiting-area of the TASO Service Center  in Kampala. Once clients are registered, all TASO services are free of charge. TASO runs 11 service centers spread in Uganda, with now 22 "mini-TASOs" and Community Based organisations in other parts of the country that are outside TASO's catchment area of 75Km from the nearest service center.
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  • Nairobi, August 2, 2019. Collins Birage (25) is a Makanga (conductor) of one of hundreds of Matatus which are every day lining up while waiting for passangers in front of the Nairobi Railways Bus Station, the largest bus station in Nairobi. The Matatus feed many people, including the conductors, the owners, but also police officers and city councils. And the national transport authorities also demand money for the routes. The Makangas earn as much as is left after deducting the payment of all these people.
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  • Nairobi, August 2, 2019. Collins Birage (25) is a Makanga, a conductor of a Matatu. He works in one of the hundreds of Matatus which are every day lining up while waiting for passangers in front of the Nairobi Railways Bus Station. Collins' goal is to get as many passengers as possible on his bus as quickly as possible. The more passengers the Makangas recruit, the more they earn. On average, a Makange earns about 2000 Kenyan Shillings a day, which is about 20 USD. The competition among the Matatus is enormous. 20000 - 40000 busses allegedly drive through Nairobi. Soon they will face even more competition. Currently a modern public transport system is being built in Nairobi. For the Matatu community this is only one more reason to become even more creative. They have already created a digital map of the Matatu lines and network with the mobile phone signals of the passengers, something that did not exist before. Now they think about digitalizing payment and electrifying the buses. Perhaps soon colorful and more eco-frendly Matatus will be whizzing through the Kenyan capital.
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  • There are many barely dressed girls in the foyer of the karaoke bar, waiting to be booked as an escort to sing karaoke with, or more. Many parents sell their own children to the sex-industry because of the high poorness in Cambodia.
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  • Trizah Mokua (28), called Stacey, poses in front of her Matatu, which is waiting for passengers at Nairobi Railways Bus Station. Stacey is one of only two Matatu drivers working at Nairobi‘s largest bus station. Her bus is not one of the fancy ones. Passengers on her route to the slum Kibera can‘t afford that. French footballers are painted on her Matatu, the paint is heavily scraped off. „Some of the drivers deliberately ram me,“ says Stacey. „They don‘t like independent women, they see me as a competitor.“
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  • A one-legged war veteran, waiting at the foot of temple of Wat Phnom to sell postcards to tourists. Wat Phnom is the eponym of Phnom Penh and built on an artificial, 27 meter high hill. The legend says that Stupa of Wat Phnom was built for the wealthy widow of Daun Chi Penh in 1372. She named the temple Wat Phnom Penh. Phnom stands for “hill”. Phnom Penh therefore stands for “hill Penh”.
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  • A Makanga and a passenger wait at the Nairobi Railway Station for the departure of their Matatus. N.W.A. stands for „Niggas With Attitude“, a gangster rap group from Los Angeles that was considered revolutionary in the 80s. Every Matatu has a theme. Movies, actors or musicians are the most popular ones, such as Batman, Spiderman, House of Cards, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj the Kardashanians.
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  • The driver of a matatu, thematically dedicated to the film Scarface, waits for passengers in the suburb of Rongai. The Scarface Matatu belongs to the so-called Rongai Sacco, translated as the Rongai Group. The Saccos are associations of matatu owners of a certain route who represent their interests together.
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  • A Motorcycle Taxi Driver waits for clients at the khoja mosque round about bus station.  Motorcycle taxis are a faster alternative to conventional Taxis or Uber in the streets of nairobi, where the traffic is often crazy and roads can be jammed for hours in the mornings and evenings.
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  • November 4, 2017. After performing a washing ritual with magic water, which contains torn pieces of paper with secret ciphers, Kherou Ngor spends a few hours on the roof of the house of his uncle before he goes to the tournament. There he waits and meditates while the laundry next to him dries in the wind. His uncle is a highly respected Marabout who claims that he can alter destiny by the using magic ciphers. He writes down the ciphers on paper. The paper with the ciphers is then torn and added to the water fort he washing ritual. Marabout is the word for a shaman, a witch doctor or a cleric in Senegal.
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  • A young girl waits for customers at Ausspannplatz in the city center of Windhoeck.
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  • Nairobi, September 28, 2019. On the LED screens in the Mastermind-Matatu boxing fights are shown while the bus waits for passangers at Tom Mboya Street in Nairobi. Like many matatus, the bus is equipped with colored interior lighting, LED screens and Wifi on board in order entertain the passengers. The entertainment pays off: The conductors have to fill some 30 seats. The faster the bus is full, the more tours they can do, the more money they can earn.
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  • November 4, 2017. After performing a washing ritual with magic water, which contains torn pieces of paper with secret ciphers, Kherou Ngor spends a few hours on the roof of the house of his uncle before he goes to the tournament. There he waits and meditates while the laundry next to him dries in the wind. His uncle is a highly respected Marabout who claims that he can alter destiny by the using magic ciphers.  He writes down the ciphers on paper. The paper with the ciphers is then torn and added to the water fort he washing ritual. Marabout is the word for a shaman, a witch doctor or a cleric in Senegal.
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