Carnival Gallery

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Performers pose for a photograph on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London on August 31, 2015. Nearly one million people are expected by the organizers Sunday and Monday in the streets of west London's Notting Hill to celebrate Caribbean culture at a carnival considered the largest street demonstration in Europe. The Notting Hill Carnival started in the 1960s, when the area had a large population of immigrants recently arrived from the Caribbean and was notorious for its slums -- a far cry from today when it is one of London's most expensive places to live. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL / AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL

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Revellers of bate-bola street carnival band perform on the first day of carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 26, 2017.
The bate-bola (ball-slammer), traditional popular carnival characters are mainly seen on the streets of the north and west areas of Rio de Janeiro. The revellers wear costumes inspired in clowns and wander around carrying decorated umbrellas or a ball at the end of a stick with which their hit the ground making a loud noise. / AFP PHOTO / Yasuyoshi Chiba

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A nominee for queen of the Carnival of Santa Cruz shows off her outfit on the main stage in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife on February 22, 2017.
The costumes are more than five meters high and over 80 kilos in weight. The event began on February 1 and finishes on March 5 with orchestras playing Caribbean and Brazilian rhythms throughout the festivities that range from elections for the Carnival Queen, the Junior Queen and the Senior Queen, to children and adult murgas (satirical street bands), comparsas (dance groups) and street performances. / AFP PHOTO / DESIREE MARTIN

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