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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.
    KUW_016_xs.jpg
  • Portrait of a naga who is smoking hash and tobacco in a clay chillum pipe at Kumbh Mela.  Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
    IND_102_xs.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Scavenging pigs eat the undigested grain in a mountain of beef cattle manure at the Harris Feed Company huge feed lot, Coalinga, California. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_21_xs.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: breeding at the Mitri Hog Ranch. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_03_xs.jpg
  • Tasting Room of R. Lopez Heredia winery, Haro. Dust, mold and cobwebs add to atmosphere.  La Rioja, Spain.
    SPA_034_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_033_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_030_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_013_xs.jpg
  • Chowpatty beach acts a public toilet in Mumbai, India. People go there to defecate at dawn, where the sewer empties onto the beach.
    IND_TOI_01_xs.jpg
  • Monks' squat toilet at the Golden Temple outside Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, China.
    CHI_TOI_01_xs.jpg
  • Children play in a rubble-strewn playground at the looted Sheikh Madar Elementary School in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The teachers of the school work without pay. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
    SOM_71_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    SOM_46_xs.jpg
  • Men looting copper phone wires. The scrap copper sells for $1.25 a kilo. This photo was taken at the front lines on the north side of Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
    SOM_11_xs.jpg
  • Welder Huang Neng (top left) and his fellow workers rest in the living quarters of a construction company in the fast-growing Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).  Living quarters and food services are on site, and at least 10 workers share one room. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
    CHI_060604_041_xw.jpg
  • Birds scavenge a landfill in a slum settlement in the Chairman District, next to the leather factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BAN_081216_231_xw.jpg
  • 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.)
    KEN_090302_311_xw.jpg
  • A girl buys a fried pastry from a vendor in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
    KEN_090302_148_xw.jpg
  • 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.
    KEN_090301_313_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.
    KEN_090301_190_xw.jpg
  • Dogs fight in dirt blackened by the burning of garbage in a tight-knit slum settlement in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's largest slum, with more than 1 million inhabitants.
    KEN_090301_109_xw.jpg
  • Vendors push trolleys at a market Narok, Kenya, after an afternoon rainstorm.
    KEN_090224_033_xw.jpg
  • Santos' home outhouse on the Orinoco River in the Canyon de Tamatama, Venezuela.
    VEN_TOI_01_xs.jpg
  • Aerial of a residential neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico.
    MEX_128_xs.jpg
  • Artemio Martinez family getting ready for breakfast in their simple house near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
    MEX_060_xs.jpg
  • Wine bottles at Bodegas Muga winery, Haro. (Gran Gran reserva magnums, 1989.) La Rioja, Spain.
    SPA_035_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    SPA_031_xs.jpg
  • 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 set.  La Rioja, Spain.
    SPA_030_xs.jpg
  • Homeless man sleeps in the doorway of an abandoned building with a trash fire burning in the foreground. Naples, Italy.
    ITA_14_xs.jpg
  • Oil spill cleanup on a beach after an oil tanker accident. The tanker, the Amoco Cadiz, split in two after running aground on rocks three miles off the coast of Brittany, France, near Portsall on March 16, 1978.
    FRA_022_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_072_xs.jpg
  • 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).
    KUW_046_xs.jpg
  • An exhausted Wild Well Control Inc. worker takes a break while 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 8, 1991.
    KUW_042_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_036_xs.jpg
  • A dead camel in July of 1991 in the devastated desert landscape in the burning greater Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_031_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_015_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_014_xs.jpg
  • 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..
    IND_039_xs.jpg
  • 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..
    IND_034_xs.jpg
  • 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..
    IND_031_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    SOM_47_xs.jpg
  • Decomposing body in the streets of Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia, where 30,000 died between November 1991 and March 1992.
    SOM_25_xs.jpg
  • Workers rest in the living quarters of a construction company in the fast-growing Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (From the coverage of welder Huang Neng in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Living quarters and food services are on site, and at least 10 workers share one room. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
    CHI_060604_029_xxw.jpg
  • Roseline Amondi, a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale at her market stall in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    KEN_090302_360_xw.jpg
  • Roseline Amondi (right), a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya as her daughter looks on. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    KEN_090302_302_xw.jpg
  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya.
    KEN_090301_163_xw.jpg
  • Roseline Amondi, a mother of four and microloan recipient with her day's worth of food outside her restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    KEN_090302_120_xxw.jpg
  • 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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  • The morning after: a drunken youth sleeping amid trash covered with cardboard during the yearly wine festival in Logroño, La Rioja Region, Spain.
    SPA_039_xs.jpg
  • Oak barrels of wine in R. Lopez Heredia winery, in Haro, La Rioja, Spain.
    SPA_025_xs.jpg
  • Oil spill cleanup on a beach from an oil tanker accident. The tanker, the Amoco Cadiz, split in two after running aground on rocks three miles off the coast of Britanny, France., near Portsall on March 16, 1978.
    FRA_023_xs.jpg
  • Oil well fire specialists of Wild Well Control, Inc. of Texas cap a Kuwait oil well after extinguishing one of the 700 fires that raged in the fields during the Gulf War. Working in high winds with ambient temperature well over 100 degrees F, workers dressed in Nomex suits drank 10-20 liters of water a day. (July, 1991).
    KUW_051_xs.jpg
  • 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) More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_047_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_039_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_038_xs.jpg
  • 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).
    KUW_037_xs.jpg
  • Drug warning sign on a street with people sleeping on the sidewalk in Bombay, India.
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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..
    IND_033_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    IND_029_xs.jpg
  • 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..
    IND_025_xs.jpg
  • Squat toilet in a private home in Menghan, Xishuangbanna, China.
    CHI_TOI_02_xs.jpg
  • Fishmongers sort tilapia on a market stall before  frying it and selling it to passing customers in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
    KEN_090302_274_xw.jpg
  • A man rakes muck out of open sewer outside microloan beneficiary Roseline Amondi's small restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The raking of muck raises the level of the street over time.  Trash is also burned in the dirt street, as the streets and alley are too narrow for garbage collection, and even fire engines, raising the risk of huge slum fires. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
    KEN_090302_252_xw.jpg
  • A girl buys a pastry made from fried dough from a vendor in the Kibera slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants., most of whom have limited access to clean water and sanitation.
    KEN_090302_232_xw.jpg
  • Roseline Amondi (left), a microloan recipient and mother of four, sells fried tilapia and talks to her daughter (in brown shirt) at her market stall in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    KEN_090302_352_xw.jpg
  • Portrait of a naga who is covered in ash at Kumbh Mela.  Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
    IND_103_xs.jpg
  • 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) More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_048_xs.jpg
  • An exhausted Wild Well Control Inc. worker takes a break while 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 8, 1991.
    KUW_043_xs.jpg
  • he devastated desert landscape in the burning greater Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_035_xs.jpg
  • Aerial of burning a burning oil well in the Magwa oil field 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.
    KUW_034_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_029_xs.jpg
  • 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..
    IND_030_xs.jpg
  • Poor people hunt for anything valuable in a landfill outside a slum settlement in the leather tanning district of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BAN_081216_133_xw.jpg
  • Roseline Amondi, a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale at her market stall in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.  (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    KEN_090302_356_xw.jpg
  • Roseline Amondi, a microloan recipient and mother of four, prepares 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.) MODEL RELEASED.
    KEN_090302_296_xw.jpg
  • Nearly a million people live in makeshift houses made of plastic, cardboard and corrugated iron sheets in Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya.  Providing affordable housing remains one of the key challenges of the Kenyan government.
    KEN_090301_184_xw.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Scavenging pigs eat the undigested grain in a mountain of beef cattle manure at the Harris Feed Company huge feed lot, Coalinga, California. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_21_xs.jpg
  • The potter's workshop of Armando Torrado, in Navarette, La Rioja, Spain.
    SPA_083_xs.jpg
  • An exhausted Wild Well Control Inc. worker takes a break while 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 8, 1991.
    KUW_044_xs.jpg
  • 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 chained. Berbera, Somaliland.
    SOM_48_xs.jpg
  • Children queue for water at a communal watering point in the Kibera slum, in Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's largest slum, with more than 1 million inhabitants.
    KEN_090301_297_xw.jpg
  • 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.
    KUW_012_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    KEN_090301_320_xw.jpg

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