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   Afro-Ecuadoreans Maintain Identity Through Spiritual Practices

   The photographer Johis Alarcón documented not just the indelible influence of African culture in Ecuador, but also how the descendants of enslaved women maintained their culture.

   By David Gonzalez and Johis Alarcón

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   If You Licked These Photos They Would Taste Like New York. (So Don’t Lick Them.)

   A look at a century of New York photographs by The Times’s staff photographers.

   By John Leland

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   At 90, Photographer Fred Baldwin Still Has ‘So Much Work Left to Do’

   Having documented Sami herders and the civil rights movement, and having just published a memoir, the photographer says his life’s work is far from complete.

   By James Estrin

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   Images of an El Salvador Town Transformed by Migration

   Three journalists present a complicated exploration of the effects of remittances in the Central American town of Intipucá.

   By David Gonzalez