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Photography

Beautiful faces: 10 brilliant finalists take us on a journey around the world

Which of these should win the Smithsonian photo contest?

THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHY can help you understand or learn something about people you have never met. It offers a window into their personalities, their troubles and their happinesses.

The finalists in the Smithsonian Magazine’s 2014 Photo Contest do exactly that. Selected from over 26,500 entries, the 10 finalists in six categories bring us to another place with creatures and people we might never have got to know without the photographers’ lens and skills.

Voting on the magazine’s website is now open for the Readers’ Choice prize who will receive $500 when the Grand Prize is announced at the end of this month.

We’ve already shown you the 10 finalists in the Natural World category, and now, here are the best of the ‘People’ shots.

Finalists in the ‘People’ category

PastedImage-98410 Matjaz Krivic Matjaz Krivic

Onno is a teenage girl from the Arbore tribe. “Onno, like other women of the Arbore tribe, enjoys decorating herself with beads,” the photographer says of the image, taken in February 2012 in the Omo Valley of Ethiopia.

PastedImage-22716 Ana Yturralde Ana Yturralde

A young girl with albinism in Valencia, Spain. She was attending the opening of an exhibition about albinos.

PastedImage-22869 Pham Ty Pham Ty

Women of a small village near Vinh Hy Bay in Vietnam sew a fishing net while their husbands fish.

PastedImage-49972 Hakan Yayla Hakan Yayla

Women of Izmir in Turkey stir cauldrons of keskek, a wheat and meat dish prepared for weddings, circumcisions and religious holidays.

PastedImage-51928 Jorge Fernandez Jorge Fernandez

A young Mursi man holds an AK-47 in the Omo Valley of Ethiopia.

PastedImage-96534 Kuntal Kumar Roy Kuntal Kumar Roy

A group of happy children gossip in Medinipur, West Bengal.

PastedImage-39471 Amy Hand Amy Hand

“This is my baby girl, Hannah,” says West Virginia photographer Amy Hand. “Although my sister captures her all the time, she told me as a mother, I could capture things on one else could. As her mother, I could capture her spirit.”

PastedImage-3512 Joydeep Mukherjee Joydeep Mukherjee

A mother plays with her child in a flooded room, near the banks of the Ganges River in Kolkata.

PastedImage-79897 Bhaskar Sur Bhaskar Sur

A woman and her child place dyed threads out to dry in Santipure, Nadia in India.

PastedImage-93825 Viet Phuong Tran Viet Phuong Tran

Two boys jump into a river near Nghiem Xuyen village in Vietnam.

Related: 10 stunning photos that show you parts of nature like you’ve never seen them

More: This drone footage from the world’s largest cave is just stunning

Read: One of the best press photographers in Ireland tells us about the best pictures he’s taken

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