Somaliland football player Guled Egal (@guled.e) sits on the teams bus during the 2016 @conifaofficial world football cup in Abkhazia. Outtake while on assignment for @roadsandkingdoms. @thesomalilandfa #portrait #abkhazia #football #somaliland #onassignment (at Sokhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia)

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During the football matches, Babushkas move their popcorn kiosks from the Black Sea to the football pitch to sell to fans as they head into the packed stadium.

This week, I’ll be posting photographs of the 2nd CONIFA football world cup in Abkhazia, a partially-recognized state between Russia and Georgia.
Last week, the obscure football tournament hosted 12 autonomous regions – homelands to ethnic minorities and stateless communities – with aspirations of nationhood that are not allowed to play in sanctioned FIFA tournaments. #Abkhazia #football #popcorn #Babushka #Sukhumi #onassignment

Light and Shadow near Grand Central Station in NYC while trying to avoid the chaos of the St. Patricks Day parade. (at Grand Central Terminal)

St. Patricks Day Parade this morning in the Diamond District. #NYC #Irish #NYFD #NYPD #iphone (at Diamond District)

Coney Island when it still possessed a little bit of grit and mystery. Shot in 2006 #coneyisland #brooklyn #ferriswheel #filmsnotdead #kodakfilm

Louisina swamp along the Mississippi River, just south of Baton Rouge in an area dubbed Cancer Alley. Shot in 2011. #canceralley #mississippiriver #swamp #louisiana #kodakfilm #filmsnotdead #kodak_photo #onassignment

Prypiat school room inside of the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine. Shot in 2010. #ukraine #chernobyl #nuclearblast #winter #prypiat #filmsnotdead #kodakfilm (at Pripyat, Ukraine)

The New River, the most severely polluted river of its size in the United States, flows through Mexicali and into Calexico on its way towards the Salton Sea, carrying mostly agriculture runoff, municipal discharge and industrial waste. The area is now being redeveloped into the new Calexico port of entry. Shot in 2010 #polution #border #river #calexico #mexico #filmsnotdead

A sand miner from the Ilaje tribe removes his ladder from Lagos Lagoon after a morning of harvesting sharp sand from the bottom of the lagoon. The harvested sand is used throughout Lagos to make cement, helping fueling Lagos consistent building boom. #Nigeria #Lagos #Construction #latergram #water #filmsnotdead #Kodak

Anti-poaching rangers with the Nigerian National Park Service begin moving camp during a week-long patrol inside of the Oban region of the Cross Rivers National Park in Nigeria.

The rangers, with assistance from @thewcs, are working to protect the park while educating the nearby encroaching communities about the damage hunting wildlife and fishing with chemicals in the rivers is doing to the park and the surrounding ecosystem.

This small group of underfunded and uneducated rangers are Nigeria’s front line defense against saving the park and the endangered wildlife within one of Africa’s oldest rainforests. #worldwildlifeday #poaching #nigeria #rangers #rainforest #filmsnotdead #latergram