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August 4, 2004 June Lee [/assets/story/image_buynow.comp]
Henna artist Deepali Deshpande paints the pregnant belly of Jennifer Socey in Durham, NC. Socey, expecting her first child, considered her giant belly unattractive and wanted to turn it into art. Henna painting is an Indian tradition, but it took Americans, Californians in particular, to make pregnant bellies a popular canvas for the designs. "When I talked to my friends in India that American women put henna pattern on their pregnant belly, they were surprised" Deepali said. "Indian women don't do henna on their belly, because they don't expose their belly."
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Takaaki Iwabu
"No Ordinary Day" is a visual diary of the events, both large and small, that serve as milestones in people's lives. It debuted on March 24, 2002 and concluded on Aug. 29, 2007. We hope you continue to enjoy looking at our archive of “No Ordinary Day” images.


Travis Long
The column is a celebration of the struggles, triumphs and tears we experience as we travel from birth to death. Our goal was to document moments in time that might otherwise be missed; sometimes it's the tiniest incident in one's life that has the most profound effect. When on assignment for the column, we looked for that one photo that tells a whole story. Some are the result of a found moment we came across on our daily assignments or our daily existence. For others, we thought of a specific event, like a first haircut or last dance, and sought out a subject who might illustrate the idea.

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