National Geographic Photo Contest 2012

Happy Couple

Photo and caption by Rendy Yuninta
This Couple are homeless drifter, the man is Chinese and the woman is Javanese, they live together to get bite of rice every day, they laugh together, they walk together, there's no burden in their life...
Location: Petak 9, Glodok, Jakarta Pusat, DKI Jakarta

The Grace

Photo and caption by Juete-Sophia Sigeneger
On a sunday afternoon this young girl performs as a tightrope dancer at the seaside promenade in Pondicherry. Her parents sitting beneath her play the drums. A magic moment.
Photo Location: Pondicherry; Tamil Nadu; India

Embera Girls Giggling

Photo and caption by Piers Calvert
Two Embera girls in the Colombian pacific coast jungles of Chocó sit in a hammock and giggle. Their torsos are painted in traditional style, the left hand one with a figure representing the boa snake, and the right hand one with an abstract curative medicinal pattern.
Photo Location: Bahia Cupica, Chocó, Colombia