Ami Vitale speaks about her photographic adventures and offers advice to those wanting to follow in her footsteps.

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Kolkata's (Calcutta) poorest residents begin to wake around 5 am on the streets of central Calcutta around Sudder Street August 30, 2007. This congested city was the first city of the colonial British and now it is the only city of India where hand pulled rickshaws are still being pulled. In 1996, the Government of West Bengal announced that it was intending to ban the rickshaws to relieve traffic congestion but it never was fully enforced. In 2007, the government again pushed to have the…

Ramla Sharif roasts coffee inside her home in the village of Choche in Ethiopia. Legend has it this is the birthplace of coffee. The region is home to the largest pool of genetic diversity in the world of coffee. It is home to more genetic diversity in coffee than the rest of the producing countries combined by a huge margin.

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Camel traders from India look at the vast offerings as sun falls at the largest camel fair in the world in Pushkar, India in the state of Rajasthan November 26, 2001. Thousands of camels and traders come to the annual event which some say have been going on for centuries.

Elephants roam inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, eastern India where thousands of tourists visit each year. India and its sacred elephants are threatened by deforestation and encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests. As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. They are often atttracted by the rice farms and in one night can destroy an entire villages' crop. (Ami Vitale)