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A photograph of an outdoor food distribution at a mountain site with dirt ground and rough shelters. In the foreground a man in a black knit beanie, dark jacket and glasses, wearing an orange scarf, holds a white plate of food and spoons it out to a woman in a black headscarf, brown sweater and patterned skirt, also wearing an orange scarf, who holds a plate with a fried bread and curry. Behind them stand a crowd of onlookers in winter jackets and hats, a person in white with an orange scarf, and a donkey with packs at upper right.

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