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Albert Podell

Podell took these portraits of people on his worldly travels. They represent (clockwise, from upper left) Azerbaijan, New Guinea, East Timor, Georgia, Georgia, Yemen, Ghana, and Myanmar (Burma).

Monks return to their dwelling place after a ceremony in Bhutan in 2010.

Harold Stephens, Albert Podell’s co-leader on the Trans World Record Expedition, sits on a camel named Canada Dry in Giza, Egypt, in June 1965. The trip set a record for being the longest uninterrupted automobile trip around the world.

A child pounds cassava—an important staple in sub-Saharan Africa. The photograph was taken in 2012.

In 1987, Podell rented a cargo canoe and traveled downstream on the Amazon River. He stopped at this village off one of the river’s tributaries about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Iquitos, Peru.

At a temple in India in 2004, Podell posed with a group of monkeys, one of which tried to steal his hat.

A chief in Papua New Guinea sits with his wife and children, in a photograph taken in 2007. By custom, men use pigs as currency to purchase their wives.