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The Guardian - UK
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Life in the Iranian-Kurdish village of Palangan - In pictures

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A Kurdish girl on a rooftop in Palangan. Houses in the village are built in a steep gorge which allows for the rooftop of one house to serve as the yard for the house above
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Palangan at dusk
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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A man in the doorway of his home in Palangan. Houses are built in a steep gorge which allows for the rooftop of one house to serve as the yard for the house above. Rooftops are kept flat with stone rollers
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Two boys stand by a fire as night falls in Palangan village
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Two shepherds lead Palangan's sheep out into pasture. Sheep are housed overnight throughout the village and each morning rounded up and led out into the hills as a single flock
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Dawn light on the road west of Palangan as it enters the mountains near the Iran/Iraq border
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Two shepherds lead Palangan's sheep out to pasture. Sheep are housed overnight throughout the village but each morning all the village's sheep are rounded up and led out into the hills as a single flock
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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A Kurdish man, hired to guard roadworking machinery, settles in for a cold night on the road near Palangan
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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The road west of Sanandaj seen from the public bus to Palangan village
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Clouds curl above a small village in the mountains near the Iran/Iraq border
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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Clouds fan out in the early morning light on a road running through mountains near the Iran/Iraq border
Photograph: Amos Chapple
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