NICK PAPADOPOULOS PHOTOGRAPHS

PORTRAITS: Portraits 1

This woman, a Karen refugee from Burma, sports a long, brass coil around her neck common among many of the hill-tribe villages in northern Thailand.
   
An elderly Cambodian woman on her way to visit the grand temple complex of Angkor Wat.
   
An elderly relative outside her simple village home in Argos, in the southern Peloponnese.
     
  
A hill tribeswoman and her children return home after a day's work in the field in northern Thailand.
   
A village elder in Omnogov, located in the Gobi Desert. Omnogov is the largest but least populated aimag, or province, in Mongolia.
   
A proud family poses for a foreign tourist inside the grounds of Delhi's Jami Masjid, the Grand Mosque located in the city's Old Quarter.
     
  
An elderly woman in the tiny Greek village of Merkouri, population 65, in the southern Peloponnese.
   
The majority, if not all, of Buddhist Lao males become monks at some stage in their lives.
   
Two soldiers pose for a foreign tourist in the capital Hanoi.
     
  
A friendly doorman at the majestic and architecturally stunning RamBagh Palace, former home of the Maharaja of Jaipur, in the Pink City.
   
The photographer's uncle during a respite from picking chestnuts in his tiny Greek village of Merkouri, population 65, in the southern Peloponnese.
   
A Burmese fisherman at work on the calm waters of Inle lake, in the country's north-east. The lake features about 17 villages on stilts, inhabited mainly by the Intha people.
     
  
A monk poses in front of the gilded and carved doors of a temple at the summit of the hill site known as Phu Si in Luang Prabang.
   
The Hakka women of Kat Hing Wai, a walled village in the New Territories, continue to wear their traditional broad brimmed hats, especially for snap-happy tourists.
   
The President of Greece, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, addresses the foreign media at the presidential palace in the capital Athens.
     
  
The internationally acclaimed Greek-born singer Nana Mouskouri signs autographs after performing for Chinese and foreign concert-goers.