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Photography / Editorial / Travel/Transportation
Life's a bed of roses
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Ali Mumtaz
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Alice Hammond
, picture editor
Lonely Planet
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For the article 'Life's a bed of roses,' at an ancient Sufi shrine in Pakistan, a man dries thousands of rose petals in order to recycle them into incense sticks. A few months after this picture was taken, suicide bombers struck the shrine.
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