Women stop to chat on the street in Lviv, Ukraine, in January, 1992 shortly after Ukraine gained independence from Russia. © Suzanne Plunkett/shotbywomen

Exhibit displaying typical Vietnam art at Vietnamese Women's Museum in Hanoi, Vietnam. © Gerry Atkinson/shotbywomen

A general view of the Vietnamese Women's Museum in Hanoi, Vietnam © Gerry Atkinson/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

Local people gather in Combe Martin to celebrate The Hunting of The Earl of Rhone on 30th May in Combe Marin, North Devon, UK. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic annual village tradition w... © Natasha Quarmby/shotbywomen

People waiting on the stairs of the Ketchaoua Mosque In Algiers. The mosque was first constructed in the 17th century but converted to a cathedral in 1845 and once again into a mosque in 1962. © Oulfa Kemmoun/shotbywomen

People queue for bread and other provisions in Lviv, Ukraine in January, 1992 shortly after Ukraine gained independence from Russia. © Suzanne Plunkett/shotbywomen

Barcelona, Spain. September 2012. Tourists waiting to enter the La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. © Jana Ašenbrennerová/shotbywomen

Barcelona, Spain. September 2012. Tourists waiting to enter the La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. © Jana Ašenbrennerová/shotbywomen

Barcelona, Spain. September 2012. Tourists waiting to enter the La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. © Jana Ašenbrennerová/shotbywomen

During chai ceremonies, sometimes animal spirits take possession of the participants. Here, a woman possessed by a monkey spirit clings to a tent pole while bananas are offered. Imam San chai ceremoni... © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

Imam San chai ceremonies are rituals rooted in ancient pre-Islamic practices, which channel the souls of ancestor spirits and in some cases, reenact scenes from Cham history. A performer is animated b... © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen