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  • Thick mud brick walls are coated with a layer of lime plaster to protect them from water damage over time in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
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  • An elaborate mud brick facade of geometric designs, coated in lime-based plaster to preserve against water damage is shrouded by palm fronds in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2662Yemen.jpg
  • Decorative geometric designs are created with mud brick and plaster and coated with lime whitewash to preserve against water damage along the roofline of a mosque in the historic, UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
    CHDIMG_2649Yemen.jpg
  • Lime whitewash covers buildings in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, to protect the mud brick from water damage, a broad minaret and mosque dome projecting into the pale blue sky above.
    CHDIMG_2648Yemen.jpg
  • Model-sized facades of colonial era houses on display in a museum in Tarim, Yemen, demonstrate the various decorative styles used on the town's mud brick homes, lime-based whitewash used to preserve against water damage.
    CHDIMG_8022Yemen.jpg
  • A fireball sun blazes above the broad minaret of a mosque in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, in a pale blue sky, decorative roofline details made from mud brick covered in lime plaster to protect against water damage.
    CHDIMG_2653Yemen.jpg
  • A poster reveals reconstruction plans for a civil war damaged building in Beirut, Lebanon.
    CHD_3963MLebanon.jpg
  • Modern skyscrapers and condominium developments sprout up in Beirut's Old Town surrounding the civil war- damaged Hilton Hotel, Lebanon.
    CHD_7620MLebanon.jpg
  • G20 Protest A journalist photographs a damaged police car attacked by anarchist protesters as it followed the end of the Labour-organized Group of Twenty summit protest migrating along Toronto's Queen Street.
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  • G20 Protest  Police officers gather around a damaged police car attacked by anarchist protesters as it followed the end of the Labour-organized Group of Twenty summit protest migrating along Toronto's Queen Street.
    G20 First Police Car Attacked.jpg
  • A ba relief depicts a human form, its head lost to damage wielding either a staff or flag in the post-classic Mayan city of Mayapan, Mexico.
    CHD043A8643MMexico.jpg
  • Damage to a fresco of the Three Wise Men reveals muliple layers of decoration on the interior walls of Wukro Chirkos church, including geometric designs featuring crosses, near Hawzen, Ethiopia.
    CHD043A7201Ethiopia.jpg
  • An incredibly well-preserved bas relief depicts birdlike creatures and a human form with eyes on either side of it, though the head is missing from damage, in the post-classic Mayan city of Mayapan, Mexico.
    CHD043A8642Mexico.jpg
  • Damage to a fresco decorating the interior wall of Wukro Chirkos church reveals multiple layers of artwork, including a layer of swastikas interposed with crosses, near Hawzen, Ethiopia.
    CHD043A7205Ethiopia.jpg
  • The guarded street entrance to a restored colonial era palace features dramatic columns and a pediment with the portrait of former Yemeni President Ali Saleh and national flags, opening through a massive whitewashed mud brick wall, other restorations ongiong in the background.
    CHDIMG_8046Yemen.jpg
  • The ingredients for making, and the tools for working with mud brick, are on display in a museum in Tarim, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_8024Yemen.jpg
  • An example of the carved wooden doors and decorative clay transoms used on colonial era houses in Tarim, Yemen, accents typicaly painted in pale blue and aqua-marine.
    CHDIMG_8028Yemen.jpg
  • Deep excavations in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, reveal multiple layers of mud brick foundations, an unusal dome rising into a somber sky in the background.
    CHDIMG_2681Yemen.jpg
  • Excavations in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, reveal deep mud brick foundations, the multiple domes of a mosque rising into a bright sky in the background.
    CHDIMG_2670Yemen.jpg
  • Geometric designs decorate the transoms above the windows of a phosphorous-white building, while mud bricks seal the windows of its derelict neighbour, in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2667Yemen.jpg
  • A woman in a black abeya walks past historic mud brick buildings featuring geometric designs on the transoms over their windows, their balconies, and around their doorways, in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky dusted with clouds.
    CHDIMG_2665Yemen.jpg
  • The ruins of a large mud brick housing compound stand roofless beneath a darkening blue sky, in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2663Yemen.jpg
  • Rosettes and floral motifs form the decorative elements in the sunlit plaster of a mud brick building's facade in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2655Yemen.jpg
  • A mud brick building in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, features artistic geometric designs on its transoms and roofline, beneath a pale blue sky.
    CHDIMG_2652Yemen.jpg
  • A mud brick building in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, features artistic geometric designs on its transoms and roofline, beneath a pale blue sky.
    CHDIMG_2651Yemen.jpg
  • A pair of men in traditional the Yemeni dress of the mawaz skirt, mount a motorcycle in a sunlit, whitewashed, mud brick alley in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2650Yemen.jpg
  • A badly battered stucco home in Mocha, Yemen, still retains its ornate wooden windows and shutters, though much of its stucco has broken away to reveal the clay brick beneath, a cloudless pale blue sky above.
    CHDIMG_2522Yemen.jpg
  • Graffiti covers a group of back alley garages in Hamilton, Ontario, Cnada.
    CHD043A7977Hamilton.jpg
  • A civil war-damaged home sits abandoned in Beirut, Lebanon.
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  • A civil war-damaged building sits empty and overgrown some two decades after the war's end in Beirut, Lebanon.
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  • A civil war-damaged building sits empty and overgrown some two decades after the war's end in Beirut, Lebanon.
    CHD_7789Lebanon.jpg
  • The battle-scarred former Hilton Hotel stands in the center of Beirut's Old Town as a reminder of Lebanon's civil war.
    CHD_7622Lebanon.jpg
  • Earthquake-damaged Cathedral of Our Lady of Assumption, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
    CHD_6874Haiti.jpg
  • The towering minaret of the Al Ashair mosque pierces a cloud-filled sky, in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2683Yemen.jpg
  • Excavations in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, reveal deep mud brick foundations, an unusal dome rising into a somber sky in the background.
    CHDIMG_2682Yemen.jpg
  • The towering minaret of the Al Ashair mosque pierces a cloud-filled sky, in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2676Yemen.jpg
  • Excavations in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, reveal deep mud brick foundations, the multiple domes of a mosque rising into a bright sky in the background.
    CHDIMG_2671Yemen.jpg
  • The towering minaret of the Al Ashair mosque pierces a cloud-filled sky, in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2668Yemen.jpg
  • Historic mud brick buildings feature geometric designs on the transoms over their windows, balconies, and around their doorways, in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky dusted with clouds.
    CHDIMG_2666Yemen.jpg
  • A trio of children gather at the shady entrance to a mud brick home featuring ornate metalwork on its door, in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2664Yemen.jpg
  • A badly decaying building features a facade decorated with star and floral motifs, its mud brick showing through the whitewashed plaster facade, beneath a pale blue sky in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2660Yemen.jpg
  • Decorative geometric designs ornament the transoms and rooflines of mud brick buildings in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2654Yemen.jpg
  • The crumbling remains of a war-battered stucco house in Mocha, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky dusted with clouds.
    CHDIMG_2523Yemen.jpg
  • The crumbling remains of a war-battered stucco house in Mocha, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky dusted with clouds.
    CHDIMG_2523BWYemen.jpg
  • A badly battered stucco home in Mocha, Yemen, still retains its ornate wooden windows and shutters, though much of its stucco has broken away to reveal the clay brick beneath, a cloudless pale blue sky above.
    CHDIMG_2521Yemen.jpg
  • War scarred buildings have electrical wires strung between them in a web as residents try to connect to reliable electricity in Baghdad, Iraq.
    CHD_9542Iraq.jpg
  • Debris blocks entry to war-damaged buildings viewed from a bus window, south of baghdad, Iraq.
    CHD_9227MIraq.jpg
  • A shutter hangs open revealing an overgrown window surrounded by vines in Beirut, Lebanon at night.
    CHD_3958MLebanon.jpg
  • Reconstructed buildings and skyscrapers in Beirut's historic district, Lebanon.
    CHD_7623Lebanon.jpg
  • The battle-scarred former Hilton Hotel stands in the center of Beirut's Old Town as a reminder of Lebanon's civil war.
    CHD_7621Lebanon.jpg
  • Earthquake-damaged Cathedral of Our Lady of Assumption, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
    CHD_6876Haiti.jpg
  • Earthquake-damaged Cathedral of Our Lady of Assumption, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
    CHD_6875Haiti.jpg
  • G20 One of several American corporations bears a storefront damaged by rampaging anarchist "Black Block" protesters, including liquefied feces hurled at the windows and display on Yonge Street.
    G20 Protest "Black Block" Yonge Stre...jpg
  • G20 Protest A trio of protesters produce identification taunting police to allow them to approach the Group of Twenty summit's Security Fence.  The infamous five metre rule which alleged that police had the right to arrest anyone approaching within five metres of the fence who refused to provide identification -- widely circulated in the media -- proved a complete falsehood.
    G20 Showing ID To Approach the Fence.jpg
  • G20 A private security officer risks dismissal to observe life on the opposite side of the security fence as riot police mass in front of Union Station.
    G20 Security on Opposite Sides of th...jpg
  • G20 Peeking Through the Security Fence looking towards Union Station from Toronto's Financial District.  Riot Police are gathered behind, but looking far more relaxed than their counterparts outside the fence.  No significant challenge was made to the fence during the Group of Twenty summit.
    G20 Peeking Through Security Fence.jpg
  • G20 Protest A sign outlines the requirements and restrictions involved when approaching the Group of Twenty summit's Security Fence.  No mention is made of the infamous five metre rule which alleged that police had the right to arrest anyone approaching within five metres of the fence and refusing to provide identification.  Ultimately, this widely circulated media story proved a complete falsehood.
    G20 Protest Security Fence Restricti...jpg
  • G20 Royal Canadian Mounted Riot Police March Wielding Billy Clubs Down Bay Street Aiming to quell a gathering of peaceful protesters in the Financial District.
    G20 Royal Canadian Mounted Riot Poli...jpg
  • G20 Protest A young man in business attire but for his sneakers offers a satirical interpretation of the vandalism behind him with his placard, suggesting "Everything is O.K."
    G20 Protest Everything is OK 2.jpg
  • G20 Protest Anarchist members of the "Black Block" have shattered storefronts throughout Toronto's Yonge Street shopping district during Group of Twenty summit protests.  Surprisingly little looting occurred, even at this cell phone outlet.
    G20 Protest "Black Block" Vandalism ...jpg
  • G20 Protest Members of the anarchist "Black Block" vandalized the front of Zanzibar Strip Club on Yonge Street during Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 Protest "Black Block" Strip Club...jpg
  • G20 Protest A Riot Police Officer offers the conciliatory Peace Sign gesture from behind his riot shield, while protecting storefronts.
    G20 Riot Police Offer Peace Sign.jpg
  • G20 Protest A Police Car's Mirror lies broken in the street during Toronto's Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 Protest Police Car's Mirror Brok...jpg
  • G20 Protest Adamant they not be filmed, members of the anarchist "Black Block" smashed windows on this Canadian Broadcasting Corporation vehicle. Police were notable in their absence.
    G20 Protest Black Block Anarchy Agai...jpg
  • G20 Protest Rather than writing on this storefront, members of the "Black Block" chose to "smash the future" during Toronto's Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 Protest Write The Future Black B...jpg
  • G20 Protest Members of the anarchist Black Bloc graffiti and attempt to prevent photography of vandalism on Queen Street during the Toronto Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 Protest Anarchist Black Bloc Que...jpg
  • G20 Protest A pair of black-clad women unfurl a banner urging the confrontation of the Group of Twenty invasion.
    G20 Protest Confront The Invasion Ba...jpg
  • G20 Riot Police are gathered in force after a breach of their line at John Street beside Much Music during the Group of Twenty summit protests.  A sign contrasts Toronto with an Orwellian New World Order.
    G20 New World Order Riot Police 2.jpg
  • G20 A riot police officer wears a gas mask during the Group of Twenty summit protests in Toronto.
    G20 Protest Gas Mask Riot Police.jpg
  • G20 Toronto riot police stand on guard for Tim Horton's doughnut franchise, blocking access to the Toronto Convention Centre.  Stop means STOP.
    G20 Riot Police Guard Tim Horton's.jpg
  • G20 Protest A Photographer Witnesses Summit Strife from a Window Shot.
    G20 Protest A Photographer Witnesses...jpg
  • A vendor's cart sits abandoned in an alley at night amidst an assortment of crates and belongings in Beirut, Lebanon.
    CHD_3964Lebanon.jpg
  • G20 A wheel chair-bound protester demonstrates the depth of the Toronto public's opposition to the $1.2 billion spent on security to host the combined G8 and G20 summits, particularly the opposition to the security fence.
    G20 Wheel Chair Protester.jpg
  • G20 Ageless Protest An older couple pause to photograph riot police officers behind the security fence on Front Street at Union Station.  The couple were subsequently warned that the small and docile group of protesters milling nearby might turn violent and that they should leave.
    G20 Ageless Protest Photographing Ri...jpg
  • G20 Protest Accessorizing her protest attire, a young woman sports a hot pink gas mask to show her fashion sense during Toronto's Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 Protest Gas Mask Fashion.jpg
  • G20 As protesters from the anarchist "Black Block" have rampaged up Yonge Street, one youthful protester holds a somewhat ironic sign urging calm.
    G20 Protest Everything is OK.jpg
  • G20 Protest The screen of an automatic teller machine is smashed after a rampage through downtown Toronto by the anarchist "Black "Block" protesters.
    G20 Protest "Black "Block" Smashed A...jpg
  • G20 Protest Smoke fills the streets of Toronto's Financial District during Group of Twenty summit protests involving the anarchist "Black Block".
    G20 Protest Smokey Streets Toronto's...jpg
  • G20 "Black Block" Protesters Attack a Flaming Police Car in Toronto's Bay Street Financial District during the Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 "Black Block" Protesters Attack ...jpg
  • G20 Protest Members of the anarchist "Black Block" have set fire to an abandoned police car in Toronto's Bay Street Financial District.
    G20 Protest Black Block Flaming Poli...jpg
  • G20 Protest Members of the anarchist "Black Block" have set fire to an abandoned police car on Bay Street, in Toronto's Financial District.  How the cruiser came to be abandoned in the middle of an open intersection is not known.
    G20 Protest Flaming Police Car Bay S...jpg
  • G20 Protest A Queen Street storefront bears the 'Against Police Against Prisons' "Black Block" graffiti. Though the group numbered about 500 strong, only perhaps a few dozen participated in their acts of vandalism.
    G20 Protest Against Police Against P...jpg
  • G20 Riot Police are gathered in force after a breach of their line at John Street beside Much Music during the Group of Twenty summit protests.  A sign contrasts Toronto with an Orwellian New World Order.
    G20 Protest No Crossing Riot Police.jpg
  • G20 Protest Palaces and Prisons. The anarchistic 'Black Bloc' gathers before their riot on Queen Street.  In the defense of the vast majority, the vandalism and destruction were perpetrated by perhaps fifty of 500 plus protesters.
    G20 Protest Palaces and Prisons Blac...jpg
  • G20 Protest New World Order Riot Police watch as protesters decry the Orwellian similarities of Toronto during the Group of Twenty summit.
    G20 Protest New World Order Riot Pol...jpg
  • Afghanistan Balkh A battered mosque shows the scars of thirty years of war, but still retains its ornate decoration.
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  • The partially damaged stone wall of a rounded turret is visible beneath a pale blue sky dusted with clouds, in Thula, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_0991Yemen.jpg
  • Faintly carved images of men in procession are visible with some face panels damaged, in the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.
    CHD043A4737MMexico.jpg
  • A view of damaged mud-brick highrises in various states of repair and renovation with decorative arches, windows and rooflines, poking above the trees, viewed from the Rock Palace of Dar Al Hajar, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_0891Yemen.jpg
  • The badly damaged Stele 1 depicts a noble in regal headdress facing left, and standing atop a faintly visible figure in a fetal position with faint glyphs on the top of the panel, in the Mayan city of Edzna, Mexico.
    CHD043A7327Mexico.jpg
  • The badly damaged Stele 1 depicts a noble in regal headdress facing left, and standing atop a faintly visible figure in a fetal position with faint glyphs on the top of the panel, in the Mayan city of Edzna, Mexico.
    CHD043A7329MMexico.jpg
  • Faint and damaged carved stone panels cntain a variety of images on a wall in the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.
    CHD043A4740MMexico.jpg
  • A damaged stone serent's head sits on the ground adjacent to the Platform of Venus in the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.
    CHD043A4664MMexico.jpg
  • Biblical figures are arrayed in arched windows behind the altar of the Church and Convent of San Miguel the Archangel in Mani, Mexico, the badly damaged and faded paintings on the ceiling above yet to be restored.
    CHD043A8707Mexico.jpg
  • Damaged stone lion in the ancient ruins surrounding Hermal, Iraq.
    CHD_9285Iraq.jpg
  • A badly damaged sarcophagus still retains some of its elaborate exterior decorations in cluding several faces in Tyre's City of the Dead, or necropolis, Lebanon.
    CHD_4203Lebanon.jpg
  • The exposed remains of the damaged rail tunnel, bombed during the civili war -- trains have been discontinued,
    CHD_3409mLebanon.jpg
  • A view of damaged mud-brick highrises in various states of repair and renovation with decorative arches, windows and rooflines, viewed from a window high in the Rock Palace of Dar Al Hajar, Yemen, a barren escarpment rising in the background, beneath a pale blue sky.
    CHDIMG_0892Yemen.jpg
  • A view of damaged mud-brick highrises in various states of repair and renovation with decorative arches, windows and rooflines, viewed from a window high in the Rock Palace of Dar Al Hajar, Yemen, a barren escarpment rising in the background, beneath a pale blue sky.
    CHDIMG_0889Yemen.jpg
  • Several damaged mud-brick highrises, in various states of repair and renovation, poke from a lush green forest, a barren, wind-sculpted escarpment rising in the background, in Dar Al Hajar, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_0884Yemen.jpg
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