Faces tell you a lot about people, the life they’ve had, their personality or even their profession. Elements of their age, clothing or behaviour often make the portrait image, as in these selections below.

This man was hamming it up in the Thimpu market for his audience (Bhutan)

“Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future”
Gail Lumet Buckley

This woman was selling jewellery in the market of the old town of Zhongdian. This part of Yunnan is close to the Tibetan border and there are many ethnic groups present. (China)

An elderly man resting in a village. People in the village had been displaced by the Indian government's creation of National Parks. Saharanpur (India)

Woman sewing in a village near Sapa, Vietnam

“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.”
Martin Buxbaum

Aboriginal child, Australia

One toothed woman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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