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      <image:caption>An insurance business mirrored window reflects the main street in Arnold, Nebraska</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Mei Hua, China</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mei Hua, a fishing port in Fuzhou China, that is well known for smuggling activity.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>20051201 New Orleans (NAT) 200506429 The Ninth Ward has opened to residents after being closed because of dangerous conditions due to the flooding after Hurricane Katrina. . Delery Street residents are allowed to come back to their homes to survey the damage. Josephine Butler, 83, whose house slid across Delery Street and landed on top of where a neighbor's home once stood. She had a large statue of an angel that she said &quot;guarded&quot; her house that once stood at the entrance to her home and has been broken off of its foundation. She was looking everywhere to  see if she could find her angel, including bending over and trying to see it under the new roof to her home all that's left. Nicole Bengiveno/ New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>20051201 New Orleans (NAT) 200506429 The Ninth Ward has opened to residents after being closed because of dangerous conditions. Delery street residents come back to survey the damage. Ishmela and Mary Helen Molizone have lived at 1632 Delery Street for 49 years. They bought their own hazmat suits and came home to start the clean-up. He had to sit down and rest for a bit after dragging soggy debris outside. Nicole Bengiveno/ New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Biloxi</image:title>
      <image:caption>Biloxi, Mississippi. The Road Back: A journey via Highway 90 along the Gulf Coast in areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina; nine months later.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Waffle House</image:title>
      <image:caption>Diners at the Waffle House in Mobile, Alabama along Highway 90 nine months after Hurricane Katrina.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Anton LaVey Satanic Bible</image:title>
      <image:caption>Anton LaVey, author of the Satanic Bible, photographed at 5am (his request) in San Francisco</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Welcome | Nicole Bengiveno</image:title>
      <image:caption>View Welcome by Nicole Bengiveno.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Welcome | Nicole Bengiveno</image:title>
      <image:caption>View Welcome by Nicole Bengiveno.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Welcome | Nicole Bengiveno</image:title>
      <image:caption>View Welcome by Nicole Bengiveno.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Immokalee Bus</image:title>
      <image:caption>5:30 am, Immokalee Florida, farmworkers wait for transportation to work. It&amp;apos;s the end of the tomato picking season and It&amp;apos;s first come first serve for the seats that will take them to the fields. From a series of photos investigating slave labor.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Labor-Hands</image:title>
      <image:caption>Immokalee Florida, farmworkers, the end of the tomato picking season where workers are paid 45 cents a basket.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Cuba</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Fidel Castro mural in Havana Cuba</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The promanade in Havana on a Sunday afternoon</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Joplin, Missouri</image:title>
      <image:caption>Tornado aftermath in Joplin, MO. A road has been cleared next to Cunniingham Park.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>20110525 Joplin, Missouri (NAT)  Tornado aftermath in Joplin, MO. Resident Franklin Gregory, 66, who is living in a shelter at the University, surveys his neighborhood on Annie Baxter Street.  (dan story) Nicole Bengiveno / New York Times</image:title>
      <image:caption>20110525 Joplin, Missouri (NAT)  Tornado aftermath in Joplin, MO. Resident Franklin Gregory, 66, who is living in a shelter at the University, surveys his neighborhood on Annie Baxter Street.  (dan story) Nicole Bengiveno / New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>New York Coast Guard Ice Breaking Tug, the Penobscot Bay, breaks the ice along the mid Hudson River area near Danskammer Point for the Barge &amp;apos;Mary Gellatly&amp;apos; that is carrying heating oil up the river, left backround.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Welcome | Nicole Bengiveno</image:title>
      <image:caption>View Welcome by Nicole Bengiveno.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Welcome | Nicole Bengiveno</image:title>
      <image:caption>View Welcome by Nicole Bengiveno.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Mother and Son Leningrad</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Day in the Life of Russia: Portrait of a mother and son in St Petersburg formerly Leningrad.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Welcome | Nicole Bengiveno</image:title>
      <image:caption>View Welcome by Nicole Bengiveno.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Central Asia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Central Asia</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Crayon Sky</image:title>
      <image:caption>Manhattan&amp;apos;s full moon rise brightened the sky, the collective inner glow of the buildings inspired thoughts of lunar myths. A view from the Brooklyn Bridge looking north.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Into the vortex, rush-hour traffic becomes physics in motion near Grand Central Terminal.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In memory of the color green, preserved in transition on a trek through New York&amp;apos;s Central Park.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Reflections in a Rain Puddle</image:title>
      <image:caption>Reflections in a Rain Puddle</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>SAG HARBOR, NEW YORK APRIL27, 2017 (BLURRED VISION) NORTH HAVEN FOG</image:caption>
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      <image:title>High Arctic</image:title>
      <image:caption>the tent I stayed in with the reporter and a guide while working in the high arctic circle and the clothing they made me wear to stay alive.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Friar's Funeral</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Commendation and Farewell memorial service was held fort 92 yr-old identical twin brothers Julian and Adrian Riester, who were professed as Franciscan friars in 1946 at the Bonaventure University Chapel.The burial service was held at the St Bonaventure Cemetery located near the campus. The brothers will be laid to rest in the area informally referred to as friar's hill. At the end of the service, birds were released by David Deitz (of Princess Doves in located in Allegany) He opens a basket containing the homing pigeons, and they fly out as the service ends.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Becoming Judy Garland</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bobby Femia watches his brother Tommygo into character for his role in impersonating legendary singer Judy Garland. Bobby will assist when Tommy is ready for wardrobe.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Becoming Judy Garland</image:title>
      <image:caption>Entertainer Tommy Femia transforms himself into legendary Judy Garland for a performance at Don't Tell Mama cabaret in NYC where he has been doing so for over twenty years</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Lindytown, West Virginia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Big coal companies are buying out small mining towns along WV Route 26, a highway linking Bandytown, Twilight, and Lindytown. A visit to one of the few remaining residents.Their house stands alone.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Baraboo, Wisconsin</image:title>
      <image:caption>Burlesque Historical Society annual reunion, held this year in a suite at the Ho- Chunk Hotel and Casino in Baraboo, Wisconsin.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Burlesque Reunion</image:title>
      <image:caption>Burlesque Reunion</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Columbia, South Carolins</image:title>
      <image:caption>Columbia, South Carolina's Campbell Pre-Release Center where prisoners use playing cards depicting unsolved crimes.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Madison, Wisconsin</image:title>
      <image:caption>Union supporters and various tribes of protesters make a stand inside the State Capitol building on a 24/7 mission. As the evening progressed, celebration began when it was announced that protesters would be allowed to stay for another night. Some danced as other played drums and make-shift instruments.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nascar</image:title>
      <image:caption>&quot;The Couchman&quot; Bill Montgomery follows tradition of setting up his scaffold in center track at NASCAR races with a living room setting; lamps, a couch; so friends and family can watch the race in the comfort of home. He also traditionally drapes an American flag around his shoulders as the race begins for all the drivers to see.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hooper, Nebraska</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hooper Nebraska. Highway 275 used to run through the town of Hooper until a few years ago when a new bypass was created. A group of concerned residents got together and helped to get a new Hooper sign erected to let passing vehicles know, Hooper is still here. The sign is located at a turn-off along the new bypass and it is lit-up at night.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Hooper, Nebraska</image:title>
      <image:caption>Highway 275 used to run through the town of Hooper until a few years ago when a new bypass was created. A group of concerned residents got together and helped to get a new Hooper sign erected to let passing vehicles know, Hooper is still here. Hooper Nebraska resident Joel Hargens is a banker at the First National Bank Northeast located on Main Street. He has a view of Main Street and a collection of deer antlers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nail Salon NYC</image:title>
      <image:caption>Late evening scene of a nail salons located alongW14th Street NYC. A customer gets a neck massage while her nails dry.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>PetsHotel</image:title>
      <image:caption>PetSmart chain stores have PetsHotel services catering to pets whose parents must leave town without them.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bayou La Batre Volunteers</image:title>
      <image:caption>Volunteers from Pennsylvania working for the Mennonite Disaster Service, gather for a game of volleyball after their day of service in the Bayou La Batre community, hard hit by Hurricane Katrina.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>After Katrina Delery Street</image:title>
      <image:caption>Delery Street residents were allowed to come back to their Ninth Ward homes to survey the damage from the flood of Hurricane Katrina after conditions were deemed safe. Josephine Butler, 83, had a large statue of an angel that she said &quot;guarded&quot; her house that once stood at the entrance to her home. She was looking everywhere to see if she could it under all that remained of her house, which had slid across Delery Street and landed on top of where a neighbor's home once stood.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>After Katrina Delery Street</image:title>
      <image:caption>New Orleans Ninth Ward opened to residents after being closed due to dangerous conditions after flooding from Hurricane Katrina. Residents bought their own hazmat suits and came home to start the clean-up.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grant Park</image:title>
      <image:caption>Raquel Gayle took a stroll in Atlanta&amp;apos;s historic Grant Park.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Queen Mary II</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Queen Mary II docks in Red Hook Brooklyn. 5am fog surrounds the scene as a patrol boat secures the area.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fort Hood, Texas</image:title>
      <image:caption>Fort Hood, Texas</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Johnny Five</image:title>
      <image:caption>Johnny Five, a homeless man struggling with psychological and drug addiction issues, has returned to living in his &quot;cave&quot; at an abandoned train station in the Bronx. The final obstacle to getting up to the street from his cave, Johnny climbs an abandoned staircase and jumps the railing.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Brattleboro, Vermont</image:title>
      <image:caption>Vermont's International Youth Circus- Circus Smirkus 2011 Big Top Tour, performs in Brattleboro, VT, pitching their tents in a field at the Vermont Agricultural Business and Education Center. 14 year old trouper, Sam Ferlo from Rome, NY, who plays a clown just as his father did for Ringling Brothers Circus. His father passed away in November of last year and Sam has decided to follow in his father's footsteps. Friends of the family and circus performers donated money to an education fund so that Sam could attend the circus camp.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bangkok Rescue</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bangkok,Thailand  The Kredtrakarn Protection and Occupational Development Center has been made the main shelter to assist and provide services for trafficked women and children from foreign countries. Illegal Burmese garment workers sign and finger-print a list for back pay for labor done. Non-Government Organization (the Foundation for Women and Foundation for Child Development) workers are helping them as part of the long repatriation process. From a series of photos investigating slave labor.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Immokalee2.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Immokalee Labor</image:title>
      <image:caption>5:30 am, Immokalee farmworkers wait in the parking lot of La Mexicana grocery store where buses will come to pick-up day workers. Most wait for the regular bus and for others it&amp;apos;s first come first serve for the seats that will take them to the fields. It&amp;apos;s the end of the tomato picking season.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Labor_Bus.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Immokalee Bus</image:title>
      <image:caption>5:30 am, Immokalee Florida, farmworkers wait for transportation to work. It&amp;apos;s the end of the tomato picking season and It&amp;apos;s first come first serve for the seats that will take them to the fields. From a series of photos investigating slave labor.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Hands.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Labor-Hands</image:title>
      <image:caption>Immokalee Florida, farmworkers, the end of the tomato picking season where workers are paid 45 cents a basket.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Providence_RhodeIsland.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Providence, Rhode Island</image:title>
      <image:caption>A tent city, dubbed Camp Runamuck by a community of homeless residents living in tents under a now closed overpass stretch of route 195 that is about to be torn down. Stephanie Proulx,19, shampoos her hair near the camp's restroom.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/mini.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Mini</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Mini Cooper car takes a spin through Manhattan. Parked in the West Village along Greenwich Street, a neighborhood dog sits across the street.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Mascot.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Mascot</image:title>
      <image:caption>Alpharetta, Georgia Milton High School football photographed for a project: Class in America.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://nicolebengiveno.com/joplin,-missouri-tornado</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-10</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Joplin3.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>The scene along South Indiana St where Sonja West and her daughter Sarah Burtrum were living.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Joplin7.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>The trees took a beating, catching flying objects during the storm. This one is located near the Joplin Elk's Lodge.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Joplin1.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>Resident Franklin Gregory, 66, who is living in a shelter at the University, surveys his neighborhood on Annie Baxter Street.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Joplin2.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>What's left of the St Mary's Roman Catholic Church where the interior pews still sit in the ruble.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Joplin4.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jack Clayton walks through an area he barely recognizes along South Main St where Auto Advantage, a car dealership, once was located at 2427 S Main St.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Joplin5.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>Old photos were scattered on the ground where the auto dealer ship used to be. The stamp on the back of the photos credited Murwin Mosler, (who graduated from Joplin high school in 1935) a photographer who documented Joplin. This photo was blown from his archive storage from across the street.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Joplin6.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>Leah Peterson wanders around what was her home where she and her husband David had an adjoining business along S Main St, a music shop called Glory Days Music. As the tornado hit, they scurried into their basement and hid under a ping-pong table.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Joplin8.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Joplin Tornado</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Kentucky Street scene where homes once stood, now a view as far east as can be seen by shocked residents.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Joplin_Tornado.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Joplin, Missouri</image:title>
      <image:caption>Tornado aftermath in Joplin, MO. A road has been cleared next to Cunniingham Park.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://nicolebengiveno.com/national-geographic</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-10</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Registan-Sq.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Registan Square</image:title>
      <image:caption>Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Artist Misha Vahrutdinov at work in Registan Square</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/albania_27.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Train to Durres</image:title>
      <image:caption>Trains that were running needed repair, missing windows in many cars. This train to Durres from Tirane maes a stop to let riders off</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albania-Bus.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Albanian Bus</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Albanian communist government was collapsing and the system was breaking down. Parts to repair were scarce and any  public transportation was overtaxed in the capitol city of Tirane.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albania_Masked.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Mask</image:title>
      <image:caption>A makeshift mask in Korce, Albania</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/albania_02.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Enver Hoxja Museum</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Hoxja Museum, named after the former Communist leader in Tirana, Albania, provides a place for childhood adventure</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/albania_01.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Bread Shop</image:title>
      <image:caption>There were food shortages and long lines for the basics including this bread line in Tirane, the capitol of Albania.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albania-Milk.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Milk Line</image:title>
      <image:caption>A woman sits on the sidewalk saving her place in line, waiting for a milk delivery. It is pre-dawn in Tirane, the capitol of Albania. Food has become scarce due to the collapsing government and the breakdown of system.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albania-Soldiers.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Albanian Soldiers</image:title>
      <image:caption>Military base in Shkoder, Albania.Soldiers line-up before beginning a drill in self defense, a part of the requirement of a two-year service.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albania-Soldiers1.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Albanian Drill</image:title>
      <image:caption>Military base in Shkoder, Albania. A self defense workout, a part of the requirement of a two-year service.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albania-Visas.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Albanian Visas</image:title>
      <image:caption>The visa office in Tirana, Albania. Crowds seaking to get permission to travel.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albanian-Ramiz.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Albanian Ramiz</image:title>
      <image:caption>Palace of Congress in Tirana, Albania where Ramiz Alia, the hand picked successor to Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha, listens to the Communist Labor Party&amp;apos;s 10th Congress as the government is collapsing and democracy is sweeping the country.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albania-Factory.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Albanian Factory</image:title>
      <image:caption>With the collapsing Communist government, work had come to a standstill in a machine parts factory in Tirane, Albania</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albania-Cart.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Albanian Cart</image:title>
      <image:caption>A horse driven cart was loaded down with hay as it pulled to a stop for people riding bicycles crossing the road in Tirane, the capitol of Albania.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Albania-Bread.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Bread Factory</image:title>
      <image:caption>A woman sweeps the floor of a bread factory in Tirane, the capitol of Albania.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Kirghizia-Gym.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Kirghizia Gym</image:title>
      <image:caption>Red October collective farm sports complex near Frunze, Kirghizia.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/ussr_02.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Kazakhstan</image:title>
      <image:caption>A sheepherder in Kazakhstan pulls on his horse as it tries to eat the grass</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Camel-Farm.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Camel Farm</image:title>
      <image:caption>A boy herds a group of camels on his family&amp;apos;s farm in Turkmenistan.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://nicolebengiveno.com/miscellaneous</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-10</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Dinnerw_Andre.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>My Dinner with Andre</image:title>
      <image:caption>A moment with Andre the Giant, who I was assigned to photograph for a feature story in PEOPLE Magazine</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Dogs.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Dogs</image:title>
      <image:caption>Tennessee Valley Road beach in Marin, California</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Brownsville.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Brownsville</image:title>
      <image:caption>Basketball clinic in the Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/CUBA-Girls.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Cuba</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Fidel Castro mural in Havana Cuba</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Detox.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Detox</image:title>
      <image:caption>Inside 10 West, a voluntary crack detox program at Brooklyn&amp;apos;s Interfaith Medical Center</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Cambodian.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Cambodian Refugees</image:title>
      <image:caption>The beginnings of Khao I Dang refugee camp in Thailand near the border of Cambodia</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Cambodian-Girl2.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Khao I Dang</image:title>
      <image:caption>The beginning of the Khao I Dang Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand where a girl was given a bowl for food that she placed on her head just after arriving at the camp.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Brides.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Brides</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco turned their domestic partners registration at City Hall into a massive wedding.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/USSR-Bus.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Moscow</image:title>
      <image:caption>Moscow winter morning commuters looking through steamed bus windows</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/USSR-Soldiers.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Red Square</image:title>
      <image:caption>The changing of the guard at Lenin&amp;apos;s Tomb, Red Square in Moscow</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Russia1.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Mother and Son Leningrad</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Day in the Life of Russia: Portrait of a mother and son in St Petersburg formerly Leningrad.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katyn.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katyn Monument Poland</image:title>
      <image:caption>A memorial site dedicated to the Katyn massacre of Polish soldiers, revealed after the fall of communism by the Soviets</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Hotel-Wired2.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Homeless Hotel NYC</image:title>
      <image:caption>An investigative story of children caught in the cycle of neglect at one of the hotels used by the city to house homeless families. A child makes a game out of discarded electrial cable.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Tweedy2.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Homeless Hotel NYC</image:title>
      <image:caption>An investigative story of children caught in the cycle of neglect at one of the hotels used by the city to house homeless families. Fire escapes are unsafe playgrounds.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/China-Son.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Mother and Son Fuzhou, China</image:title>
      <image:caption>A young wife and mother at home in Fuzhou China, cares for her son and waits to hear the fate of her husband. He ended-up in a U.S. detention center after the ship he was smuggled in on went adrift off of the shore of Queens, NY.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/CHINA-Port.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Mei Hua, China</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mei Hua, a fishing port in Fuzhou China, that is well known for smuggling activity.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Anton-LaVey.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Anton LaVey Satanic Bible</image:title>
      <image:caption>Anton LaVey, author of the Satanic Bible, photographed at 5am (his request) in San Francisco</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Austrailia-Krishna.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>A Day in The Life of Austrailia, Krishna</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Day in the Life of Austraiia: the day begins at a Hare Krishna farm at Murwillumbah in north-eastern New South Wales; Gopi has entered the diety chamber where offerings are made to Krishna.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Japan1.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>A Day in the Life of Japan', Self Defense Force</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Day in the Life of Japan: The last day of basic infantry training for 191 young women at the Ground Self Defense Force Base in Asaka, near Tokyo.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/japan_02.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Japan's Self Defense Graduation</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Day in the Life of Japan: The last day of basic infantry training for 191 young women at the Ground Self Defense Force Base in Asaka, near Tokyo. Announcments were made for postings and friends said their goodbyes.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Man1.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>One Man San Francisco Bay</image:title>
      <image:caption>San Francisco Bay afternoon, a beach all to himself, almost.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://nicolebengiveno.com/unintentional-monuments-to-katrina</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-10</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katrina9.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katrina-</image:title>
      <image:caption>Aaron Broussard, resident and member of the East shore neighborhood association in East New Orleans. He is concerned about the blight from abandoned and overgrown property in the neighborhood. This one blocks the sidewalk.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katrina8.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katrina-BLIGHT</image:title>
      <image:caption>A portrait of community leader Aaron Broussard, resident and member of the East Shore neighborhood association concerned for his neighborhood and the blight he is seeing from absent residents and overgrown properties. He looks through a window of an empty house that still has debris from Katrina inside.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katrina10.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katrina-FUTURE</image:title>
      <image:caption>An overview of a junk yard along Almonaster Ave where towed Katrina cars sit until the future price of metal is good.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katrina17.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katrina-RECYCLING</image:title>
      <image:caption>Roger Cull , of Stonehedge Construction a cement recycling business,, was vacationing in New Orleans with his family when Katrina threatened the city. Two days after she hit, he brought his construction company to New Orleans to begin the clean-up. He stands on chunks of New Orleans foundations, cement from houses, roads, and foundations destroyed by Katrina. His company has 350,000- 400-000 tons of recycled cement in piles, and from the top of one; a vista of his neighbor's junk yard where Katrina cars are being stored until the price of metal goes up in the future.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katrina11.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katrina- FUTURE1</image:title>
      <image:caption>An overview of a junk yard along Almonaster Ave where towed Katrina cars sit until the future price of metal is good.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katrina7.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katrina-BUREAUCRACY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A portrait of Michael Dupont,59, standing near the overgrown lot where his great grandfather used his WWI pay to buy a house, and where his grandfather lived, and where his father and mother made their home; he holds a photo of the house that used to be. Because of miscommunication during the process of applying for Road Home assistance, their house was demolished unbeknownst to them and they recently received a bill from the city for the work.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katrina1.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katrina-RESILIENCE</image:title>
      <image:caption>In the process of being renovated, located along St Anthony Street in the 7th ward district, owner Juan LaBostrie said his father was born at this location and his grandfather was a brick mason, building the house piece by piece in the early 1040s. This house stood on six foot piers originally and In the recent renovations after Katrina, the house has been raised even more to go up another story. In the planning, he said, there was a miscalculation and the house was raised more than was planned. The surprise to the owner was that by doing so, his yearly flood insurance went from $1,100 to $300.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katrina13.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katrina-CONCERN</image:title>
      <image:caption>East Shore resident and community leader Aaron Broussard, stands near the deserted Curan Apartment complex that stretches for several blocks along Curan Ave. The blight of absent residents and overgrown properties are his first concern regarding the neighborhood. He used to live in section eight housing and vowed to buy his own home. He did it and now he wants to keep it nice. He wishes the abandoned apartment property would be developed into a shopping center for the east New Orleans neighborhood.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katrina2.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katrina-ABANDONED</image:title>
      <image:caption>Much of the lower Ninth Ward is abandoned. The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center states: The Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood has recovered 24% of it's population since Katrina showing 5,363 residents pre Katrina and 1,271 as of June 2010.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfa1547e/images/Katrina20.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Katrina-PATIENCE</image:title>
      <image:caption>A portrait of Lake Shore neighborhood resident Madge Goff,85, who still seeks shelter in the FEMA trailer parked in her front yard as her home is slowly being renovated from Katrina damage. She has had bad experiences with contractors and is doing what work she can while she waits.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Much of the lower Ninth Ward is abandoned. Homes have been torn down and debris removed, though on this corner of N.Galvez, there is a flicker of life: the street traffic light is still working green/yellow/red though not many cars come through.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Katrina-GRIEF</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Katrina cross, a monumental symbol of courage and grief; the search and rescue symbol that was seen spray painted on buildings that were searched after the hurricane and flood, providing information on what was found inside of the homes and buildings. Tattoo artist Keel shows a snap shot from his portfolio of a tattoo he did on a New Orleans fire department EMT who came into his shop after the disaster. The EMT already had a tattoo on his arm of the city's symbol of the star and the crescent moon shape that he wanted altered; He asked Keel to make a tattoo of the spray painted X with the date of Katrina and the total number of dead from the disaster.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Katrina-NEIGHBORS</image:title>
      <image:caption>Abandoned property and overgrown yards are unintentional monuments to Katrina and the communities caught in limbo. In the meantime, Charles Brimmer (backround center) has mowed his absent neighbor's property for the past five years on the Ninth Ward block that he and his family has lived. He does it mostly for his family's safety.His brother Calvin, visiting from California (right) helps him with the job.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Katrina-TIME</image:title>
      <image:caption>The former Gentilly Woods Shopping Center located along Chef Menteur Highway and Press Drive is surrounded by cyclone fencing sits abandoned. (Times Picayune:)The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority recently used public money to outbid a private developer for the abandoned Gentilly Woods Shopping Center, offering $700,000 more than its competitor to get direct control over a key recovery project site.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Katrina- FAMILY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mother's Restaurant located at 401 Poydras St was one of the first restaurants to come back. They have their Katrina story written on the back of their menus:. When they returned after the storm and flood, the owners tried to locate their employees, bringing back longtime staff, considered part of the Mother's FAMILY. Many of them had lost their homes, so nine FEMA trailers were brought in to the parking lot next door where they stayed. On Oct 15th Mother's reopened. Vice Admiral Thad Allen , the head of the disaster relief effort, was their first customer. Although their menu was limited and hours shorter, as locals returned city, they came back to Mother's. Today it still is a favorite with locals, especially going to the Saints games down the street at the Superdome, but it also a big tourist draw.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Katrina-PRIDE</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Superdome was symbolic as a refuge of suffering and misery and abandonment by the federal government as the disaster unfolded. And now it's home to the current Super Bowl Champions where the hometown team, the New Orleans Saints, won the deciding game, at home and are now the pride of the city. James Kirt, 58, works in the facility's maintenance department and was power washing the exterior in preparation for the upcoming season. Mr Kirt evacuated when Katrina was approaching. He lived in Texas and returned to New Orleans after one year.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Katrina-LIFE</image:title>
      <image:caption>Unintentional monuments dedicated to the lost dogs of Katrina. An up and coming neighborhood in Bywater, which was not flooded during Katrina; reveals a scene along Dauphine Street where dogs and owner are out for their walk and regular routine in life.</image:caption>
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