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  • Washing clothes at the dhobi ghats, Bombay, India. The dhobi is a traditional laundryman, who collects your dirty linen, washes it, and returns it neatly pressed to your doorstep. The "laundries" are called "ghats": row upon row of concrete washtubs.
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  • Washing clothes at the Dhobi ghats, Bombay, India. The dhobi is a traditional laundryman, who collects your dirty linen, washes it, and returns it neatly pressed to your doorstep. The "laundries" are called "ghats": row upon row of concrete washtubs..
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  • Washing clothes at the Dhobi ghats, Bombay, India. The dhobi is a traditional laundryman, who collects your dirty linen, washes it, and returns it neatly pressed to your doorstep. The "laundries" are called "ghats": row upon row of concrete washtubs..
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  • A mother nursing her sick child with other refugees in a camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Base Camp at Redwood Summer, a conglomeration of environmental activists who camped out near Willow Creek, California, USA, to protest excessive logging during the summer of 1990.
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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Drug warning sign on a street with people sleeping on the sidewalk in Bombay, India.
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  • Todd Kincer, a coal miner, with his face blackened with coal dust after an industrious day at work in a coal mine located deep inside a mountain in the Appalachians near the town of Whitesburg, Kentucky. (Todd Kincer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After showering and scrubbing off the day's coal dust, Todd gets ready to dig in to one of his favorite meals: Hamburger Helper with double noodles. A college graduate drawn to the coal mine by the relatively high pay, Todd spends a 10-hour shift mining underground, driving a low-slung electric shuttle car that carries coal from the face of the coal seam, where it's being chewed up by a deafening, dusty mining machine, to a conveyer belt. The coal mine in which Kincer works is pitch-black, except for headlights and headlamps. During winter months, Todd never sees daylight during the workweek. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A farmer prepares rice fields for planting in  Ha Tay Province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • A farmer prepares rice fields for planting in  Ha Tay Province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, fixes one of her daughters' hair outside her adobe house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs or stove, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jackie Ray Clem operating a Joy Continuos Reach mining machine at the Stillhouse 2 Coal Mine, in Harlan County, Kentucky. The Joy Continuos Reach cuts an eleven foot wide swath of coal.
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  • Emerging from the portal after a 10-hour shift, a dozen of coal miner Todd Kincer's colleagues lounge on the "man car" that transports them to and from the coal face, several miles into the mountain, at the Advantage One Mine outside Whitesburg, Kentucky. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Jun Yajima, who works as a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, relaxes at his home in his tiny apartment with a beer and takeout food outside Tokyo, Japan after a long day at work. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A woman paddles a raft made of discarded lightweight refuse in the Banani Lake slum district. She gathers water in plastic jugs and bottles from a public spigot on the other side of the lake to bring back to her slum home on an island in the lake.
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  • Alamin Hasan with fellow very young child porters on the platform of the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh is heavily polluted with plastic and other non-biodegradable litter from fruit and vegetable markets at the Sadarghat docks.
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  • Abdel Karim Aboubakar, a Sudanese refugee at the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. (Abdel Karim Aboubakar is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 2300 kcals. He is 16 years of age; 5 feet 9.5 inches tall; and 110 pounds. Aboubakar escaped over the border from the Darfur region of Sudan into eastern Chad with his mother and siblings, just ahead of the Janjaweed militia that were burning villages of black Sudanese tribes. Like thousands of other refugees, they were accepted into the camp program administrated by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. Their meals are markedly similar to those they ate in their home country; there's just less of it. They eat a grain porridge called aiysh, with a thin soup flavored with a dried vegetable or sometimes a small chunk of dried meat if Abdel Karim's mother has been able to work in a villager's field for a day or two. MODEL RELEASED. .
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife Phurba washes her hands in a small creek outside yak hair tent home in the Tibetan Plateau after picking fresh yak dung and made patties from it to dry in the sun for use as fuel for cooking on her earthen stove. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, who works as a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, relaxes at his home in his tiny apartment with a beer and takeout food outside Tokyo, Japan after a long day at work. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, a bike Messenger, washes dishes in the kitchen of his tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo, Japan. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh is heavily polluted with plastic and other non-biodegradable litter from fruit and vegetable markets at the Sadarghat docks.
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  • Jackie Ray Clem operating a Joy Continuos Reach mining machine at the Stillhouse 2 Coal Mine, in Harlan County, Kentucky. The Joy Continuos Reach mining machine cuts an eleven foot wide swath of coal.
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  • A farmer prepares rice fields for planting in  Ha Tay Province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Woodstock Rock Festival fans on a muddy hill at the Woodstock rock festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm, in the rural town of Bethel, NY, on the weekend of August 16-18, 1969.
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Hereford cattle are being loaded into tractor-trailers to transport them to the company's slaughterhouse in nearby Selma, California. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Costumed revelers, a nun in drag and a clown, at Winter Carnival in Venice, Italy.
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  • A factory worker carries a stack of bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • Roseline Amondi (right), a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Kids playing on a street in the Kibera slum,  Africa's largest slum settlement where nearly a million people live in grinding poverty, with no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Woodstock Rock Festival fans in the rain wait on the muddy hillside above the stage for the next act to play at the Woodstock rock festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm, in the rural town of Bethel, NY, on the weekend of August 16-18, 1969..
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  • Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Photograph Peter Menzel's medium telephoto lens compresses the naked bodies of New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Clipping the tail of a baby pig at the Mitri Hog Ranch. Confined pigs nip each others tails, so the tails are removed. USA.
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  • Surplus oranges fed to cattle by H and E Cattle Feed Company near Bakersfield, California, USA.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. Artificial insemination.
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. A feedlot steer stands knee deep in a pool of liquid cattle manure after a rain. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Napa Town and Country Fair. Napa, California, USA. Napa Valley.
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  • Alf Burtleson (center) stands with his partners Dale Wondergem and Jim Curry where they are expanding a wine cave belonging to Flora Springs Winery in Napa Valley, California.
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  • Lime, NH cemetery
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  • .Animal slaughter and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • .Animal slaughter and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Mekong Estates guest house complex in Ban Saylom, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Rammed earth construction workers. N.S.W., Australia. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Motorcycle breakdown on Stuart Highway, south of Alice Springs. Shot during the Pentax Solar Car Race.
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  • Peter Menzel cools off in a water tank south of Walgett, NSW, Australia.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Clipping the tail of a baby pig at the Mitri Hog Ranch. Confined pigs nip each others tails, so the tails are removed. USA.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Reading fat layers by sonogram at the Dee Brothers hog farm, State Center, Iowa. USA.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Bill Liston's Iowa hog farm uses old fashioned, outdoor confinement. USA.
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  • Sante Fe dump on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Aerial of a residential neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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  • A family eats a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Santa Catarina Arch in Antigua, Guatemala.
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  • Tasting Room of R. Lopez Heredia winery, Haro. Dust, mold and cobwebs add to atmosphere.  La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Aged wine in bottles at R. Lopez Heredia winery, Haro. The aging cellars are not dusted and the older sections have a tremendous buildup of mold, dust, and cobwebs that give the cellars the look of a horror movie La Rioja, Spain.
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  • British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team sweeping for unexploded ordinance and bomblets in the devastated desert landscape in the burning Magwa oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War (near GC1: Gathering Center One). More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. The entire country was walked by teams of experts and more people died in this cleanup effort than US and Coalition soldiers killed during the actual war.
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  • An oil well fire specialist of Red Adair, Co. of Texas works to prepare a well for capping by sawing off the damaged well head in the Kuwait oil fields. The fire has already been extinguished but the well is spewing oil and gas into the air under high pressure. The trick is to cut through the metal casing cleanly without causing any sparks that could reignite the well and incinerate the workers. The company was one of those brought in to fight the Kuwait oil well fires after the end of the Gulf War (July, 1991).
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  • Safety Boss of Canada workers capping an oil well after they extinguished the fire. The burning Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991 were covered in oil that rained down from the clouds of oil smoke and oil shooting into the air after a fire had been extinguished. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. Photo taken on July 11, 1991.
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  • The Red Adair Company capping an oil well after they extinguished the fire. The burning Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991 were covered in oil that rained down from the clouds of oil smoke and oil shooting into the air after a fire had been extinguished. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • An oil well fire specialist of Red Adair, Co. of Texas works to prepare a well for capping by sawing off the damaged well head in the Kuwait oil fields. The fire has already been extinguished but the well is spewing oil and gas into the air under high pressure. The trick is to cut through the metal casing cleanly without causing any sparks that could reignite the well and incinerate the workers. The company was one of those brought in to fight the Kuwait oil well fires after the end of the Gulf War (July, 1991).
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  • British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team sweeping for unexploded ordinance and bomblets in the devastated desert landscape in the burning Magwa oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War (near GC1: Gathering Center One). More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. The entire country was walked by teams of experts and more people died in this cleanup effort than US and Coalition soldiers killed during the actual war.
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  • Firefighters preparing a burning oil well so that the damaged well head can be capped in the Magwa field near Ahmadi, Kuwait. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • In Kuwait on July 3, 1991, a Boots and Coots oil well firefighting specialist guides a stinger that will pump drilling mud into the damaged well. A stinger is a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them difficult and dangerous. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • An oil lake and devastated desert landscape in the burning greater Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Aerial of a non-burning oil well feeding an oil lake in the burning greater Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • A lake of oil reflects a fire in the burning greater Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Self Portrait, Peter Menzel, after photographing in the street during the Holi Festival, a Hindu spring festival, also called the Festival of Colors. On the second day, known as Dhulandi, people spend the day throwing colored powder and water at each other. New Delhi, India. New Delhi, India; MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Priests holding two rats by the tails during a ceremony at the Hindu Rat Temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India. This ornate Hindu temple was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the early 1900s as a tribute to the rat goddess, Karni Mata..
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  • Hindu Rat Temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India. This ornate Hindu temple was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the early 1900s as a tribute to the rat goddess, Karni Mata..
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  • Hindu Rat Temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India. This ornate Hindu temple was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the early 1900s as a tribute to the rat goddess, Karni Mata..
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  • Swarming rats feeding and drinking water at the Hindu Rat Temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India. This ornate Hindu temple was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the early 1900s as a tribute to the rat goddess, Karni Mata..
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  • Squat toilet in a private home in Menghan, Xishuangbanna, China.
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  • Monks' squat toilet at the Golden Temple outside Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, China.
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  • Livestock market with camels, cattle and goats in Hargeisa, Somaliland, an unrecognized breakaway Republic of Somalia. Livestock is the main source of income in Somaliland.  March 1992.
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  • A young girl with her baby sister on her back in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • A mental hospital built by the British in the 1930's. The hospital is named "Jail Magnoun" which is Arabic for "mad". Once a patient is committed to the hospital there is no chance of release. Some patients, like the one pictured, are caged or chained. Berbera, Somaliland.
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  • A woman carrying her listless child in a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, Somalia, the war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood rooftops in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood.
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood rooftops in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood.
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo repairs barbed wire fences at his ranch in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo repairs fences with his 22 year old nephew, Rigoberto at his home in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz repairs fences with his 22 year old nephew, Rigoberto, at his home in the Sierra Mountains  near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo eats breakfast with his two youngest sons at his ranch home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Emerging from the portal after a 10-hour shift, a dozen of coal miner Todd Kincer's colleagues lounge on the ?man car? that transports them to and from the coal face, several miles into the mountain, at the Advantage One Mine outside Whitesburg, Kentucky. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo repairs fences with his 22 year old nephew, Rigoberto at his home in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ermelinda's children enjoy soup and empanadas for breakfast in an earthen hut in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The family of eight consists of Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, Orlando Ayme, 35, and their children: Livia, 15, Moises, 11, Jessica, 10, Natalie, 8, Alvarito, 4, Mauricio, 30 months, and Orlando hijo (Junior), 9 months. Lucia, 5, lives with her grandparents to help them out.
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  • A brick hauler loads a stack of bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • Factory workers carry bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80- Diets.)
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  • Birds scavenge a landfill in a slum settlement in the Chairman District, next to the leather factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Factory workers carry bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • Child workers take a break at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Unlike the garment industry, where child labor restrictions are more closely monitored, rural agriculture and industry are less regulated and there is little if any oversight or enforcement. When queried, some laborers at a nearby site defended the use of child workers, saying poor families need their children to be breadwinners now if they are to have any kind of future. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns.
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  • A boy prepares to carry his next load of bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • Factory workers carry bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • Factory workers carry bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
    BAN_081214_351_xw.jpg
  • Factory workers carry bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
    BAN_081214_329_xw.jpg
  • A child receives a token for carrying bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
    BAN_081214_311_xw.jpg
  • A vendor fries fish for sale in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement with nearly one million inhabitants, the majority of whom have no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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