Portraits from Peru’s Snow Star Festival
These portraits were taken with a 19th century-style box camera during Peru’s Qoyllur Rit’i festival, translated from the Quechua language as Snow Star.
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Thousands displaced by flooding in Peru
More than 50,000 people have been displaced by flood water in the region of Piura in northern Peru and hundreds of houses have been flooded. Many local residents are being taken to shelters set up by the government, while others refuse to leave their land and prefer to stay on high ground in their communities.
In Peru, a polluted Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca was once worshiped by Incas who proclaimed its deep blue waters the birthplace of the sun, but today high levels of mercury, cadmium, zinc and copper are found in the fish locals consume, according to a 2014 government study.
Flooding, landslides strike Peru
Torrential rains, landslides and overflowing of rivers have killed 25 people and affected over 200,000 in Peru since the beginning of the year.
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Peru celebrates country’s Independence Day
Peru gained independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821. A large military parade is held in honor of the Armed Forces and the National Police of Peru.
33 Lions airlifted to South Africa
Animal Defenders International organized the largest airlift of lions ever this week, flying 33 former circus lions from Peru and Colombia to a sanctuary in South Africa. The lions will spend their golden years at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Vaalwater, South Africa.
LGBT pride around the world
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month is celebrated in June each year to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York. Thousands have gathered at parades around the world to celebrate LGBT pride.
Meet Pitito, Peru’s oldest clown
Veteran clown Ricardo Farfan, popularly known as “Pitito,” doesn’t get the jobs he used to. But every morning the 91-year-old clown still sips his coffee and studies an old notebook where he keeps hundreds of pages of jokes and comedy moves he has built up over almost nine decades in the circus.
“The businessmen think that an old clown can’t make people laugh, but they are wrong,” said Farfan.
His four children have asked him to retire, Farfan says he cannot do that. “I will only stop clowning on the day I die.”
(Photos by Esteban Felix/AP Photo)
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A floating village in Peru
The Uros islands are a group of 70 man-made totora reed islands floating on the lake, which according to Peru’s tourism board is the world’s highest navigable lake at over 4,000 meters above sea level. The Uros fish and hunt, but tourism is their main source of income.