Dramatic black & white photographs of the annual  local people’s Miss Colombia beauty pageant in Cartagena, Colombia, Afro-Colombian contestants represent the city’s poor neighbourhoods. The girls wear elaborate homemade costumes and feather headdresses and parade Cartagena’s backstreets after dark.

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Size: 7087px × 4474px
Location: Cartagena, Colombia, South America
Photo credit: © Paul Spencer / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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