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Series of photographs on sponge fishing.

Series of photographs on sponge fishing.

Before their arrival sponge fishing had been done from a boat, with long sticks used to spear the prey one at a time. The Greek émigrés changed all that. Wearing 200-pound diving suits, they plunged 120 feet below the sea's surface and…

Series of photographs of sponge fishing.

Series of photographs of sponge fishing.

A couple trudge through the snow towards a horse drawn sled.

At the fishing village of Posolsk on the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, a horse pulls a wagon bearing a barrel of water from the lake for household use.

Friends and strangers join in song at a restaurant in Tbilisi, a common occurrence among the music-loving Georgians.

Early on Easter morning, the long midnight service draws to a close in Moscow's Yelokhovsky Cathedral as the priest gives the silver cross to each worshiper to kiss. Only those with passes gain admittance to the crowded cathedral at Easter.

Old man and a new cart move along a street in Bukhara. East-West caravan routes once fostered Bukhara's growth, and it became a center not only of trade but also of Islamic studies. Now its economy relies primarily on manufacturing industries.