Chris Rainier [USA]
Chris Rainier is considered one of the leading documentary photographers working today. His life's mission is to put on film endangered indigenous cultures around the globe. Rainier is a National Geographic Society Fellow and is Director of The Enduring Voices Project, documenting endangered languages and cultures. He

Yixinima and Jiezhen are carrying stones onto the top of Yaowang Mountain after checking up the inscriptions.
Together with many other engravers, Rawangqiongchu worships the statues and scriptures in the crags every morning

The ballet "Swan Lake" was in　rehearsal in Beijing on Dec. 31, 2007.

An Afghan bodybuilder takes a cigarette break as his trainer paints his body before the semi-finals of the Mr. Kabul competition at the Olympic Stadium, Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 4, 2007.  Body building in Afghanistan w

A disabled athlete prepared to jump into a pool as he attended a training session at the South of the Clouds Swimming Club on Sept. 7, 2007.
The disabled girl Wei Meinv attended a training session at the South of

wo young men were doing swordplay behind a bamboo curtain in a kendo gym. The essentials and methods of kendo were written on the curtain. Nowadays kendo were becoming more and more popular in China with the development of Sino-Japan cultural intercourse. People turned to kendo to bu

Norway's Gunhild Bentzen Folstad(R) and China's Handuan(9) fighted for the ball during 1/4 finals match at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in Wuhan on Sept. 23, 2007.

A female swimmer who lost her arms slided under water with her eyes shut on December 12，2007.The first swimming club for the disabled people, the South of the Clouds Swimming Club for the disabled in Kunming, China, was set up in Aug. 2007. Used to be the training base for the