Show Navigation

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 57 images found }

Loading ()...

  • A Mohawk hair styled woman applies black lipstick to a friend 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.
    USA_BMAN_44a_xs.jpg
  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
    USA_060523_066_x.jpg
  • Amir Chakhaq Complex. Old city at dusk, Yazd, Iran.
    IRN_061213_374_rwx.jpg
  • A member of the Professional Sumo Team (Musahigawa Beya) gets his hair fixed while others clean the practice ring in preparation for a tournament in Nagoya, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_060628_370_xw.jpg
  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
    USA_081128_065_x.jpg
  • Matxus Osinaga, family.  Madrid, Spain.
    SPA_269_xs.jpg
  • Torrens family in their living room. Madrid, Spain.
    SPA_266_xs.jpg
  • St. Laurent fashion presentation. Paris, France.
    FRA_048_xs.jpg
  • Kuwait Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait. From the government website: One of Kuwait's most famous landmarks, the Kuwait Towers are situated on Arabian Gulf Street on a promontory to the east of the City centre in Dasman. The uppermost sphere of the largest tower (which is 187 meters high) has a revolving observation area and a restaurant with access by high speed lifts. The entrance fee is 350 fils per person, or free if lunch or dinner has been reserved. Cameras with zoom lens are forbidden. The middle tower contains 1 million gallons of water.? (Source information comes from: www.kuwait-info.com). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
    KUW_030321_10_rwx.jpg
  • A teenage girl with white face at Harajuku.Tokyo, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_04_xs.jpg
  • Teenage girls eat ice-cream from Baskin-Robbins on a sidewalk in the Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_060701_132_xw.jpg
  • A fashionably dressed young woman walks past the Angels heart dessert bar in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_060701_012_xw.jpg
  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer, looks at Paris fashions on the Internet in her bedroom at her home in the city of Isfahan, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in December was 2400 kcals. She is 17; 5'4,5" and 121 pounds. Atefeh's relaxed repose and her attire, combining jeans and headscarf, show her ease with foreigners yet respect for tradition. She aspires to turn her fashion designing avocation into a vocation by becoming a designer after college. MODEL RELEASED.
    IRN_061216_240_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua speaks to a neighbor outside her home  in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090308_804_xw.jpg
  • A Himba woman carries an ehoro (traditional wooden bucket) filled with milk after milking cows in a corral in the village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. During the rainy season there is plenty of grass for the animals to eat but the mud and manure of the corral are problematic.
    NAM_090308_713_xw.jpg
  • Ansis Sauka, a voice teacher, musician, and composer, with his typical day's worth of food while rehearsing the Riga youth choir Kamer in Riga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 36 years of age; 6 feet, 0,5 inches tall;  and 183 pounds. Riga, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the oldest continuously running market in Europe, is known throughout Europe for its choral traditions. It proudly hosts the nationwide Latvian Song and Dance Festival every five years. In 2008 more than 38,000 singers, dancers, and musicians participated in the weeklong event. MODEL RELEASED.
    LAT_081020_211_xxw.jpg
  • Boys on the banks of the Niger River in Kouakourou, Mali, sport sunglasses made in China. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait (1994), pages 12-13.
    MAL_MW_800_xxs.jpg
  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
    USA_060525_031_x.jpg
  • Harajuku district Elvis dance troop members. Tokyo, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_30_xs.jpg
  • Mosque interior, old Islamic Cairo, Egypt.
    EGY_030526_013_x.jpg
  • Mariel Booth, a professional model and New York University student at home in her rented 4th floor walk up apartment located in the Lower East Side of New York City. (Mariel Booth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_ny_081011_209_xw.jpg
  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer, looks at Paris fashions on the Internet in her bedroom at her home in the city of Isfahan, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    IRN_061216_213_xxw.jpg
  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer, looks at Paris fashions on the Internet in her bedroom at her home in the city of Isfahan, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
    IRN_061216_226_xw.jpg
  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
    IMG_4146_x.jpg
  • Kuwait Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait. From the government website: One of Kuwait's most famous landmarks, the Kuwait Towers are situated on Arabian Gulf Street on a promontory to the east of the City centre in Dasman. The uppermost sphere of the largest tower (which is 187 meters high) has a revolving observation area and a restaurant with access by high speed lifts. The entrance fee is 350 fils per person, or free if lunch or dinner has been reserved. Cameras with zoom lens are forbidden. The middle tower contains 1 million gallons of water.? (Source information comes from: www.kuwait-info.com). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
    KUW_030321_007_rwx.jpg
  • Takuya Mizuhara, an 18 year old university student (third from the right) with his friends at his favorite meeting place, McDonalds in Shibuya District of Tokyo, Japan. (Takuya Mizuhara is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    Japan_JAP_060702_151_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua carries a bucket of milk at her home  in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    NAM_090308_805_xw.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: breeding at the Mitri Hog Ranch. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_03_xs.jpg
  • Gers and hand built homes without water or plumbing sprang up on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as more and more of Mongolia's rural population moved to the capital city to find work.  Russian style apartment buildings mark the edge of the established city, and the growing suburban ger settlements stretch into the surrounding hills. (Gers are circular tent-like dwellings with a collapsible wooden frame covered in animal skins, felt, and/or canvas. It serves as a home for shepherds and families alike. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mongolia, 2001.
    Mon_mw2_82_xs.jpg
  • Dresden, East Germany. An example of severe Soviet style architecture. 1983.
    GER_20_xs.jpg
  • Scorpions swarming at the Ru Yang Boda Scorpion Breeding Company, a new business in China's burgeoning market economy in Luo Yang, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. The Boda ranch's thirty employees are raising more than three million scorpions for public consumption in a football field-sized brick building. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Chi_meb_97_xs.jpg
  • A woman and her son choose scorpions for dinner in a market in Guangzhou, China's. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. They taste like sautéed twigs. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Chi_meb_111_xs.jpg
  • Gers and hand built homes without water or plumbing sprang up on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as more and more of Mongolia's rural population moved to the capital city to find work. (Gers are circular tent-like dwellings with a collapsible wooden frame covered in animal skins, felt, and/or canvas. It serves as a home for shepherds and families alike. Traditionally, the structures fit the lifestyle of the largely nomadic Mongols. As the population became more stationary, the ger continued to be used as animal skins and wool felt were, and are, easier to procure while more western style building materials were expensive and scarce.) From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mongolia, 2001.
    Mon_mw2_87_xs.jpg
  • Early March snow dusting the adobe style homes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
    USA_NM_07_xs.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: New style, all metal buildings at a hog farm in Greenfield, Iowa. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_04_xs.jpg
  • Lights illuminate the Amazon Theater in Manaus, Brazil at dusk as a lightning storm flashes over the Solimoes River. The opera house was built in eclectic neo-classic style during the rubber boom period in the 1890's.
    BRA_071110_126_xw.jpg
  • Riccardo Casagrande, a Roman Catholic friar and gastronome, in the San Marcello al Corso church dining hall in Rome, Italy, with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in July was 4000 kcals. He is 63 years of age; 5 feet, 8.5 inches tall; and 140 pounds. For over 20 years he has overseen the kitchen, the rooftop garden, and the basement wine cellar for the friars and priests living in the church complex near Rome's Spanish Steps.   Between stints saying mass in the beautiful San Marcello al Corso in Rome, he is in charge of his fellow brothers' wine cellar, and oversees the cooks. Traditional Italian food is served family style in the brothers' large dining room. MODEL RELEASED.
    ITA_040614_830_xxw.jpg
  • A scorpion ranch in Luoyang, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. Man Eating Bugs page 93.
    Chi_meb_128_xs.jpg
  • Resident from the rural countryside built squatters houses on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. There are some rounded gers visible in the photograph but Mongols attracted to the more modern style began to build non-traditional housing. Architecture. Material World Project.
    Mon_mw_7_xs.jpg
  • Russian style apartment buildings in urbanized Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The city's big coal-fired power plants (smokestack and 3 cooling towers in background) and countless small coal-burning stoves create a polluted haze. Published in Material World, page 43.
    Mon_mw_4_xxs.jpg
  • Steam rises in clouds from the huge woks of this noodle vendor in Kunming, in southwest China. Cooked in the celebrated style of the city of Guiyang, 300 miles away, these egg noodles are served in a spicy broth and topped with chicken, beef, shiitake mushrooms, or (most famously) pig intestines and blood. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 14).
    CHI97_0002_xxf1s.jpg
  • A scorpion ranch in Luoyang, China. The scorpions are fed mealworms and watermelon. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. Man Eating Bugs page 93.
    Chi_meb_119_xs.jpg
  • Chicken and ducks for sale in Chinese open markets are shown live then either killed immediately or brought home live. The Chinese insistence on fresh food treats with suspicion anything that is already dead. This is changing somewhat in urban centers as Western style supermarkets become more ubiquitous in the country. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
    CHI97_0020_xf1bs.jpg
  • Despite the convenience and selection at the Western-style market run by the government-subsidized Shamiya, Wafaa Al Haggan goes to a small shop for one of the most crucial components of her family larder: bread. A plate of nan-e barbari, Persian-style flat bread, accompanies every meal in Kuwait, and Wafaa has strong opinions about the skills of the various bakers in the neighborhood. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 199).
    KUW03_0003_xxf1.jpg
  • Franzbrötchen Hamburg-style French cinnamon buns at the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany. The family was photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
    GER_130613_002_x.jpg
  • Russian-style apartment buildings in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia. Small shops ring the complex. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mongolia, 2001.
    Mon_mw2_95_xs.jpg
  • Grain and sundries shop in the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu. There are no western-style supermarkets in the country. This store is about as big as they come, and most all of the packaged goods come in overland from India. Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
    Bhu_mw_12_01_xs.jpg
  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Melahat Çelik mixes the dough for savory arugula-feta filled Turkish pastries in her apartment kitchen and then will sit on the living room floor and roll paper-thin pastry called yufka around the filling to create an eggroll-style pastry her family loves. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
    TUR01_0032_xf1bs.jpg
  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After Melahat Çelik mixes the arugula-feta filling for a savory Turkish pastry in her apartment kitchen, she sits on the living room floor and rolls paper-thin pastry called yufka around the filling to create an eggroll-style pastry her family loves. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 259).
    TUR01_0007_xxf1s.jpg
  • The Soviet-style apartment blocks on the edge of Ulaanbaatar, a legacy of Mongolia's Communist past, are now surrounded by squatters; more accurately, urban homesteaders. Former nomads, they have precisely parceled out the land and staked out their neat gers. The gers lack indoor plumbing, but in other ways are more comfortable than the city's crowded apartments. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 228). This image is featured alongside the Batsuuri family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
    MON01_0002_xxf1s.jpg
  • Franzbrötchen Hamburg-style French cinnamon buns at the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany. The family was photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
    GER_130613_002_x.jpg
  • Christiania: a counter-culture commune-style community near the harbor in Copenhagen. Denmark.
    DEN_10_xs.jpg
  • A Hindu priest pours an offering of ghee onto a fire at the Shiva Temple, which is built into the Kid's Kemp Shopping Mall on Old Airport Road in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The 65-foot plaster statue of Lord Shiva sits in a lotus position before an amusement park-style Himalayan mountain-scape built of chicken wire and cement. This free popular attraction at the Kids Kemp shopping mall draws nearly 500,000 devotees on festival days.
    IND_081207_173_xxw.jpg
  • Visitors wait for their turn to enter the Shiva Temple, which is built into the Kid's Kemp Shopping Mall on Old Airport Road in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The 65-foot plaster statue of Lord Shiva sits in a lotus position before an amusement park-style Himalayan mountain-scape built of chicken wire and cement. This free popular attraction at the Kids Kemp shopping mall draws nearly 500,000 devotees on festival days.
    IND_081207_161_xw.jpg
  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Ensada Dudo graciously welcomes visitors to her home in Sarajevo with Turkish sweets and cups of Turkish-style coffee on a handcrafted tray. Metalwork is a Sarajevan specialty. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 51).
    BOS01_0006_xxf1s.jpg
  • Like most Kuwaitis, including the man pictured here, Wafaa Al Haggan does most of her grocery shopping in one of the country's many Western-style supermarkets; in her case, a multistory market in a shopping center run by the government-subsidized Shamiya and Shuwaikh Co-operative Society. Although Kuwait imports 98 percent of its food, much of it from thousands of miles away, the choice and quality of the goods on display easily match those in European or U.S. markets, and the prices are lower. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 199).
    KUW03_0004_xxf1rw.jpg
  • Pama Kondo (in yellow) talks with family members and friends in her courtyard as her daughter Pai gets her hair styled for her wedding. Pai, 18, will be married today to her first cousin, Baba Nientao, who has come back from the Ivory Coast where he has lived with his family since he was 12 years old. The arranged marriage was revealed to Pai this morning, as is the custom, and she is quiet as part of the ritualized mourning for her lost youth.
    Mal_mw2_59_xs.jpg

Peter Menzel Photography

  • Home
  • Legal & Copyright
  • About Us
  • Image Archive
  • Search the Archive
  • Exhibit List
  • Lecture List
  • Agencies
  • Contact Us: Licensing & Inquiries