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WG
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My posts are (mostly) vintage images cultivated from the internet (tumblr). I try to keep it SFW. Open to submissions and suggestions; if you've got something I judge fits my theme, I'll post it. If I miss a source, feel free to correct me.
March 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I don't do a lot of portraits but I hope that you like this one. Captured at a Pow Wow in Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan

#photography #travel #photographersofbluesky #portrait #nativeamerican #artyear #explore #escape #sonyshooter #art
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#Photography Bernard Plossu
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Daniel Diaz, amazing model :)
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Special meaning
Colours can have special meanings, red means blood and therefore life, yellow means the sun,and black means night.
Pequi oil added to the paste. The villagers hold the oil in high esteem because they believe it keeps the body supple, preventing broken bones during a wresting match.
February 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Duke Kahanamoku, ca. 1910: 0n surfing: “Hawaiian culture had been destroyed, and the people decimated by European diseases, between 1778 and 1893, the Hawaiian population shrank from an estimated 800,000 to 40,000...From this terrible history modern surfing…
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