Science & Technology, 3rd prize
Alon Reininger
Contact Press Images
Contact Press Images
01 August, 1988
Swimming with mud cakes in Wudalianchi, China. Traditional medical practices in China like mineral baths, light therapy, electro-physiotherapy and acupuncture. Ancestral inheritance and modern technology are combined for the purpose of relieving pain.
Alon Reininger
Alon Reininger (Tel Aviv, Israel, 1947) began his career covering the 1973 Yom Kippur War for UPI. One of the original members of Contact Press Images in 1976, he has followed th...
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