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Foundation Louis Vuitton - Paris

PARIS (75) VISITORS PHOTOGRAPHING A PICASSO PAINTING (WOMAN WITH A FAN) AT LOUIS VUITTON FOUNDATION Photo by Bernard Jaubert/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) (8 EME ARRONDISSEMENT) PARIS PHOTO 2024. THE ?PARIS PHOTO? CULTURAL EVENT RETURNS TO THE GRAND PALAIS. THE ?GREEN TURBAN? EXHIBITION BY HENDRICK KERSTENS, A DUTCH PHOTOGRAPHER WHO HAS BEEN PHOTOGRAPHING HIS DAUGHTER PAULA SINCE 1995. Photo by Jean-Francois Rollinger/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) (8 EME ARRONDISSEMENT) PARIS PHOTO 2024. THE ?PARIS PHOTO? CULTURAL EVENT RETURNS TO THE GRAND PALAIS. THE ?GREEN TURBAN? EXHIBITION BY HENDRICK KERSTENS, A DUTCH PHOTOGRAPHER WHO HAS BEEN PHOTOGRAPHING HIS DAUGHTER PAULA SINCE 1995. Photo by Jean-Francois Rollinger/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fences installed at Mt. Fuji photo spot to curb jaywalking

Photo taken on Dec. 17, 2024, in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, shows fences set up in front of a convenience store that has become a popular spot for photographing Mt. Fuji to prevent jaywalking.

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Wimbledon - Third Round

Photo taken on July 6, 2024 shows a tennis fan photographing the rain cover over court on day 6 at Wimbledon tennis Championship in London, Britain. Photo by Han Yan/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(SP)BRITAIN-LONDON-TENNIS-WIMBLEDON-DAY 6

(240706) -- LONDON, July 6, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Photo taken on July 6, 2024 shows a tennis fan photographing the rain cover over court on day 6 at Wimbledon tennis Championship in London, Britain. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Han Yan)

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Illustration Port Of Marseille

Asian tourists photographing themselves with the maid in the background on the vieux-port in Marseille, France, April 13, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(231214) -- BEIJING, Dec. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Gongming (R) holding his father Yan Xinqiang's hand when walking at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (R) and Yan Gongming at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their book, the Great Wal

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Gongming (R) holding his father Yan Xinqiang's hand when walking at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (R) and Yan Gongming at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their book, the Great Wal

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (R) and Yan Gongming having lunch at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their book,

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (L) and Yan Gongming checking on a restored watchtower at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combo photo shows Chinese soldiers battling near a section of ancient Great Wall (Above, taken by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist) and Yan Xinqiang and Yan Gongming posing for pictures at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, the shooting place of the above photo (Below, taken on Feb. 7, 1997). Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (R) and Yan Gongming at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their book, the Great Wal

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (L) talking with a Great Wall protection volunteer about the wall condition at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Gongming (L) holding his father Yan Xinqiang's hand when walking at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (Rear) and Yan Gongming at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their book, the Great

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang taking pictures of the inside formation of a watchtower at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (L) and Yan Gongming taking pictures at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their boo

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (L) and Yan Gongming on the Great Wall in Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their book, the Great Wall is dissected into parts

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 23, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (L) and Yan Gongming sharing their research results about the Great Wall during an activity to share their new book in Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (R) holding onto Yan Gongming's shoulder when walking at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great W

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (Rear) and Yan Gongming checking on bricks used to restore the Great Wall at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (R) holding onto Yan Gongming's shoulder when walking at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great W

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (front) and Yan Gongming at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their book, the Great

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (R) and Yan Gongming at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their book, the Great Wal

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combo photo taken on Dec. 13, 2023 shows pages of the picture book by Yan Xinqiang and Yan Gongming. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their book, the Great Wall is dissected into parts and details. T

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Gongming (L) holding his father Yan Xinqiang's hand when walking at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Gongming (R) holding his father Yan Xinqiang's hand when walking at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)

(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 23, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (2nd R) and Yan Gongming (1st R) sharing their research results about the Great Wall during an activity to share their new book in Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture

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Disabled Tibetan photographer aims high

STORY: Disabled Tibetan photographer aims high SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 9, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:25 LOCATION: LHASA, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Lhasa 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Tibetan): LHAPA DONDRUP, Tibetan photographer 3. various of Lhapa Dondrup working 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Tibetan): LHAPA DONDRUP, Tibetan photographer 5. various of Lhapa Dondrup photographing 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Tibetan): LHAPA DONDRUP, Tibetan photographer 7. various of Jole 8. SOUNDBITE 4 (Tibetan): JOLE, Founder of Tuogang company 9. various of Lhapa Dondrup's photo works 10. SOUNDBITE 5 (Tibetan): LHAPA DONDRUP, Tibetan photographer 11. various of Lhapa Dondrup STORYLINE: Lhasa, Xizang, China For 22-year-old Lhapa Dondrup, roaming around the city and taking photos have become a daily routine. SOUNDBITE 1 (Tibetan): LHAPA DONDRUP, Tibetan photographer "I am Lhapa Dondrup, from Maizhokunggar County, Lhasa." Standing less than 1 meter tall, the wheelchair-bound Tibetan has brittle bone disease, which leads to fre

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Türkiye's cultural hub Istanbul gets ready for Chinese tourists

STORY: Türkiye's cultural hub Istanbul gets ready for Chinese tourists DATELINE: Jan. 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:11 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Istanbul city in Türkiye 2. various of tourists walking on Istiklal Street 3. various of tourists walking and photographing in Taksim square 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (Turkish): MURAT ARSLAN, General manager of CVK Park Bosphorus Hotel 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Turkish): MURAT ARSLAN General manager of CVK Park Bosphorus Hotel 6. various of Chinese tourists 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (Turkish): ALI CAN AKSU, Head of the Turkish Hotel Managers Association 8. SOUNDBITE 4 (Turkish): ALI CAN AKSU, Head of the Turkish Hotel Managers Association 9. SOUNDBITE 5 (Turkish): ALI CAN AKSU, Head of the Turkish Hotel Managers Association STORYLINE: Türkiye's cultural and financial heart, Istanbul, the only city in the world spanning Europe and Asia, is preparing for the arrival of Chinese tourists. Soon after China downgraded its COVID-19 measures on Jan. 8, easing intern

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Leica gives girl of quake-hit area camera

TOKYO, Japan - Airi Sato, an 18-year-old high school student from Miyagi Prefecture, holds a monochrome camera given to her by Andreas Kaufmann (R), a senior executive of Leica Camera AG, at the German camera maker's shop in Tokyo's Ginza area on March 12, 2014. The girl who was chief of the camera club at Shiroishi Technical High School in an area hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake said she will keep photographing the images of the stricken northeastern Japan areas.

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Leica gives girl of quake-hit area camera

TOKYO, Japan - Airi Sato, an 18-year-old high school student from Miyagi Prefecture, holds a monochrome camera given to her by Andreas Kaufmann (R), a senior executive of Leica Camera AG, at the German camera maker's shop in Tokyo's Ginza area on March 12, 2014. The girl who was chief of the camera club at Shiroishi Technical High School in an area hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake said she will keep photographing the images of the stricken northeastern Japan areas.

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Guarding Japan's satellites from space debris

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2012 shows the Bisei spaceguard center in Ihara, Okayama Prefecture, where the Japan Spaceguard Association observes space debris and asteroids with the aid of optical telescopes and other devices. The image is not clear due to ultrasensitive photographing. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Japan prince visits Kenyan game reserve

NAIROBI, Kenya - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito visits an ''orphanage'' for rhinos separated from their parents at Sweetwaters game reserve in Kenya on March 12, 2010. The prince took a tour of the reserve at the foot of Mt. Kenya photographing animals such as giraffes and zebras.

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Japan prince visits Kenyan game reserve

NAIROBI, Kenya - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (C) plants a tree together with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai (R) in Sweetwaters game reserve in Kenya on March 12, 2010. The prince took a tour of the reserve at the foot of Mt. Kenya photographing animals such as giraffes and zebras.

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Japan begins fingerprinting, photographing foreigners

NARITA, Japan - An immigration official (R) explains a new fingerprinting device to a foreign visitor at Narita International, northeast of Tokyo, on Nov. 20 as Japan began implementing a revised immigration law that calls for fingerprinting and photographing foreigners aged 16 or older upon their entry into the country through its 27 airports and 126 ports.

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Justice minister tries out fingerprinting system at Narita

NARITA, Japan - Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama tries out a new fingerprinting and photographing device at Narita International Airport on Nov. 19, a day before a new law requiring the fingerprinting and photographing of foreigners entering Japan comes into force. The law is aimed at preventing terrorism but officials say fingerprints and other biometric data will be stored in a database to be checked against foreigners who have been deported from Japan and those wanted by the Japanese police. The law excludes ethnic Koreans and other permanent residents with special status, foreigners aged under 16, visitors to Japan using diplomatic or official passports and state guests.

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Immigration fingerprinting, photographing device on display

NARITA, Japan - The Immigration Bureau put a new fingerprinting and photographing device (photo) on public display at Narita International Airport on Nov. 13, a week before a new law requiring the fingerprinting and photographing of foreigners entering Japan comes into force. The law is aimed at preventing terrorism but officials say fingerprints and other biometric data will be stored in a database to be checked against foreigners who have been deported from Japan and those wanted by the Japanese police. The law excludes ethnic Koreans and other permanent residents with special status, foreigners aged under 16, visitors to Japan using diplomatic or official passports and state guests.

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Gov't adopts action plan to fingerprint foreign visitors

TOKYO, Japan - A government task force responsible for fighting international terrorism adopted an action plan Dec. 10 that includes fingerprinting and photographing all foreign visitors upon entry into Japan as part of the nation's antiterrorism campaign.

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Civic groups protest Marine's unruly behavior

NAHA, Japan - Holding a banner that reads ''Impeach the indecent crime by an American soldier,'' members of civic groups in Okinawa shout their protest Jan. 12 over a recent incident in which a Marine was arrested on suspicion of lifting up a high school girl's skirt and photographing her.

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CHINA-BEIJING-SPACE STATION-ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHER (CN)

(221213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Liu Boyang adjusts photographing equipments at a photographing site in Changping District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 4, 2022. On that day three Chinese astronauts on board the Shenzhou-14 manned spaceship returned to Earth safely. TO GO WITH "Profile: Astronomical photographer chasing China's space station" (Xinhua/Liu Jinhai)

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CHINA-BEIJING-SPACE STATION-ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHER (CN)

(221213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Liu Boyang adjusts photographing equipments at a photographing site in Changping District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 4, 2022. On that day three Chinese astronauts on board the Shenzhou-14 manned spaceship returned to Earth safely. TO GO WITH "Profile: Astronomical photographer chasing China's space station" (Xinhua/Liu Jinhai)

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CHINA-BEIJING-SPACE STATION-ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHER (CN)

(221213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Liu Boyang transports photographing equipments to a photographing site in Changping District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 4, 2022. On that day three Chinese astronauts on board the Shenzhou-14 manned spaceship returned to Earth safely. It always takes a long time to install and adjust the photographing equipments. In order to capture the pictures in time, Liu has to start the preparation work about two hours in advance every time. TO GO WITH "Profile: Astronomical photographer chasing China's space station" (Xinhua/Liu Jinhai)

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CHINA-BEIJING-SPACE STATION-ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHER (CN)

(221213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Liu Boyang uses tracking equipments at a photographing site in Changping District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 4, 2022. On that day three Chinese astronauts on board the Shenzhou-14 manned spaceship returned to Earth safely. TO GO WITH "Profile: Astronomical photographer chasing China's space station" (Xinhua/Liu Jinhai)

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CHINA-BEIJING-SPACE STATION-ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHER (CN)

(221213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Liu Boyang (L) waits the transit of China's space station after adjusting photographing equipments in Miyun District, Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 21, 2022. TO GO WITH "Profile: Astronomical photographer chasing China's space station" (Xinhua/Hao Zhao)

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CHINA-BEIJING-SPACE STATION-ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHER (CN)

(221213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Liu Boyang installs and adjusts photographing equipments at a photographing site in Changping District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 4, 2022. On that day three Chinese astronauts on board the Shenzhou-14 manned spaceship returned to Earth safely. TO GO WITH "Profile: Astronomical photographer chasing China's space station" (Xinhua/Liu Jinhai)

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CHINA-BEIJING-SPACE STATION-ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHER (CN)

(221213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Liu Boyang installs and adjusts photographing equipments at a photographing site in Changping District, Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 4, 2022. On that day three Chinese astronauts on board the Shenzhou-14 manned spaceship returned to Earth safely. TO GO WITH "Profile: Astronomical photographer chasing China's space station" (Xinhua/Liu Jinhai)