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Jeweled Hands, London, England, 2000

Painted with henna and strewn with traditional gold jewelry, London-born Sonia Behl's hands reveal her Indian heritage. Demographers estimate that almost 30 percent of London's population will be ethnic minorities by 2010—the majority of whom will be born in the U.K.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "London on a Roll," June 2000, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Jodi Cobb