YUNGHI KIM PHOTOGRAPHY

THE WORLD

ON ASSIGNMENT

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All images copyright 2010 Yunghi Kim,

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Students hold the Indonesian flag during a protest at the Parliament building Jakarta, where as many as 30,000 students gathered daily in 1998.
  
New Yorkers walk across the Brooklyn Bridge at pre-dawn. Transit strike left 7 milliion people without transportation into Manhattan.
     
  
Children in Indonesia who can't afford to pay 30 cents for train ride, hang or ride on top of a train which is free.
   
A woman mourns after hearing of Arafat's death.
  
Ancient city of Ping Yao, China.
     
  
Candlelight vigil outside the Bishop's Palace, as Poles mourn their national hero, Pope John Paul.
  
Poles grieve as his death is announced.
  
Afghan girls at play near Nasser Baugh refugee camp, near Afghan border.
     
  
After Kuridsh Pershmerga took over strategic oil rich city of Kirkuk, Saddam's bank burns as father and daughter walks by with their looted goods.
  
Kurds celebrate on the news of US Military's take over of Baghdad.
  
Islamic fundementalist protesting American bombing of Afghanistan, burn an American flag and gets his face caught on fire as well. He was taken to the Hospital.
     
  
Kurdish women peer at the photographer, at holy site of Noah's Tomb, border town to Northern Iraq.
  
Nyirakamari Nzajyibukama, 10, finds a bit of joy singing and resting on a tree stump. Her family was gathering wood for cooking. In 1994, 800,000 Rwandans massed in the tiny resort town of Goma, Zaire (Congo), fleeing civil war between Hutus and Tutsies, which left as much as 800,000 massacred in ethnic cleansing and thousands more victims of cholera.
  
A child proudly displays dinner.
     
  
A child at play with a doll.
  
A Somali woman drinks from a kettle, after filling it at a water well.
  
A frail Somali man, who was scavenging for spilled grain, is caught in a dust storm caused by a relief plane taking off.
     
  
   
US Marines land on beach as the sun rises.
  
Kurdish women at a wedding.
     
  
Billionaires for Bush, who mock wealthy Bush supporters, demonstrate by poking fun at Bush's policies. They are said to favor the wealthy. They chant slogans like " privatize the sidewalk" and "four more wars". The Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA.
   
Tuesday night womens' book club meeting.