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  • Standing beneath hanging sheep carcasses, five sheep wait patiently; soon it will be their turn at the slaughterhouse, which is attached to the Zumbagua market in Ecuador. At the live-animal market a quarter mile away, shoppers can pick out the animals they want, then have them killed, skinned, and cleaned. The entire process, including the time it takes to walk the sheep from the market to the slaughterhouse, takes less than an hour. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 113).
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  • Making the long return trip from the weekly market in the valley, Orlando Ayme leads his father-in-law's horse, while his wife Ermelinda (center) carries the bundled-up baby and some of the groceries and Livia trudges along with her schoolbooks. Alvarito has literally run up the steep path ahead; like 4-year-old boys everywhere, he is a tiny ball of pure energy. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 109). (MODEL IMAGE RELEASED)
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  • Wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Ermelinda Ayme spends part of her morning in the windowless cooking hut, cleaning barley in the light from the doorway. After she blows away the dust and chaff, the grain is ready to be ground for breakfast porridge. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 114). (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Cultivating potatoes on a windy afternoon, Ermelinda Ayme wraps her baby in two shawls tied in different directions. When she and her husband Orlando arrived at the field, a ten-minute walk from their home, they said a quick prayer to Pacha Mamma (Mother Earth) before working the land. Occasionally, Ermelinda has to adjust the baby's position, but generally she has no problem carrying her tiny passenger. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 117). (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Ermelinda Ayme cooks empanadas for her children in the family's earthen kitchen house as one of her sons watches. Husband Orlando slices onions to help his wife, an unusual task for a village man to undertake in Ecuador. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Patchwork fields on steep hills near Ambato, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Ayme family outside their thatch-roofed adobe-brick-walled cooking hut. The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Returning from the weekly market in Simiatug with most of their purchases strapped onto a borrowed horse, Orlando Ayme (35, father), leads the horse and Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo (37, mother), and Livia Rocío (15, daughter) follow. Their home in Tingo is an hour walk up the mountain. Orlando sold two sheep for $35 to buy food for his family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • The Ayme family sits on the dirt floor of their kitchen and eats soup and empanadas for breakfast. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • The Ayme family heads off to cultivate one of their potato fields on their small farm in the village of Tingo, near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their home.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; interior, Colorado Indian home.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their house.
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  • The patio restaurant of a hotel in downtown Quito, Equador.  Photography workshop for South American photojournalists taught by USA professional photographers and editors.
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  • Private chapel interior of Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Interior of Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • A local Ecuador photographer talks with Carol Guzy (right) at a party at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • A cook showing roasted cui (guinea pigs) at a party at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Courtyard fountain with private chapel at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Pablo Corral Vega with a platter of roasted cui (guinea pigs) and a bottle of wine at a party at his farm house in Ecuador.
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  • Interior of Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Interior of Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • A mountain lake near Otavalo, Ecuador.
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  • David Griffin shops at the outdoor market at Otavalo, Ecuador.
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  • David Griffin shops at the outdoor market at Otavalo, Ecuador.
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  • San Diego Cemetery in Quito, Ecuador. It is the final resting-place of some of the most important public personalities of Ecuador, including various ex-presidents.
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  • San Diego Cemetery in Quito, Ecuador. It is the final resting-place of some of the most important public personalities of Ecuador, including various ex-presidents.
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  • San Diego Cemetery in Quito, Ecuador. It is the final resting-place of some of the most important public personalities of Ecuador, including various ex-presidents.
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  • San Diego Cemetery in Quito, Ecuador. It is the final resting-place of some of the most important public personalities of Ecuador, including various ex-presidents.
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  • San Diego Cemetery in Quito, Ecuador. It is the final resting-place of some of the most important public personalities of Ecuador, including various ex-presidents.
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  • Cathedral interior with ornate altar, Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Aerial of Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Aerial of Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Aerial of Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Aerial of Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), buys some oranges and other fruit from a vendor in the weekly market in Simiatug (his wife, Ermalinda is by his side, also with red poncho). He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family.  (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • Orlando Ayme shows off one of his sheep which has 4 horns, which he thinks is hilarious. Orlando and his sons and a neighbor are returning from cultivating their potato field. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • A wooden bowl with parched corn on the dirt floor of the Ayme's cooking house in the village of Tingo, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • The Ayme family on their way to the weekly market in Simiatug, Ecuador. They are taking two sheep to sell so they can buy rice, potatoes and other vegetables since their own potato  crop is not ready to harvest. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • The Ayme family on their way to the weekly market in Simiatug, Ecuador walk down this road from their village of Tingo, high above the town of Siamatug. They are taking two sheep to sell so they can buy rice, potatoes and other vegetables since their own potato crop is not ready to harvest. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • The weekly market in Simiatug Ecuador spreads through the streets of the small mountain town. Orlando Ayme sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Orlando Ayme shows off one of his sheep which has 4 horns, which he thinks is hilarious. Orlando and his sons and a neighbor are returning from cultivating their potato field. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Ayme family on their way to the weekly market in Simiatug, Ecuador. They are taking two sheep to sell so they can buy rice, potatoes and other vegetables since their own potato  crop is not ready to harvest. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, sells two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of  Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. (He is not visible in this photo of the crowd.) (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, sells two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of  Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. (He is not visible in this photo of the crowd.) (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Two women outside a clothing shop on market day in Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho, center), sizes up a vendor of oranges before he buys some. He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family.  (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), bargains with a vendor of flour and beans before he buys some. He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), pays for some flour he bought from a vendor in the weekly market in Simiatug (his wife, Ermalinda is by his side on the right, also with red poncho. His youngest son is on his wife's back and Alvarito, 4 is in the blue sweater eating an orange.) He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. ((Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), buys a big sack of rice from a  vendor in a truck. He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. His wife Ermalinda and youngest son watch. He bought "broken" rice because it is cheaper than the whole grain rice. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • Alvarito Ayme, 4, casts a beseeching look at his mother, Ermalinda, who is buying grain and flour from the local indigenous coop in Simiatug, Ecuador in the hope that she will buy him a sweet from the display counter. His father, Orlando, sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. Supporting Image from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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