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This story appears in the September 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hands folded over his prosperous belly, a straw fedora tight on his head like a crown, an old gent named Paraschiv ...

His latest work was published by National Geographic. We are republishing some of his photographs here with texts based on his own descriptions.