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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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  • Two local girls washing dishes in the Niger River. Kouakourou, Mali. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Women wash and perform rituals at the Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varansi, India. Varanasi, India.
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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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  • A worker from the Red Adair Company attempts to wash oil off his body after 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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  • Buaphet Khuenkaew, 35, rinses the pans and dishes she has just washed in the backyard of her house, under a banana tree. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat. A man uses a long bamboo pole that once was part of the litter fashioned to carry a body to the cremation grounds at Harishchandra Ghat to flip the unburned legs and arms back into the fire. He uses the pole to smash the skulls open as well so that it burns more easily. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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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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  • A Muslim guest worker servant from Indonesia washes the dishes in her employers' large modern kitchen in Dubai as the master of the house looks on. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). As an indigenous citizen of the United Arab Emirates this family is entitled to a substantial subsidy from the government and jobs for the males in the household. Their high standard of living is a far cry from his parents' life as nomadic Bedouin camel herders of the desert. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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  • Tomatoes: Tomato cannery facility, Stockton, California, USA. Washed tomatoes going up a conveyor to the factory.
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  • Living in earthquake rubble, near Plaza Garibaldi in Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • A woman carries her family's laundry down to the Niger River in Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • A sky scrapper under construction looms above the rows of dormitories in which Huang Neng shares a room with nine other workers in Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • An afternoon swim in the river Ganga. Near the Dashashwamedh ghat. Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi.
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  • Shahnaz Hossain Begum rinses tiny fish for dinner at a village well in  Bari Majlish, an hour outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food for a typical day in December was 2000 kcals. She is 38 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 130 pounds. Her micro-loan-financed small businesses have enabled her to build six rooms that she rents out, each for $8.65 (USD) a month. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bath time for Zekom on the ledge of her mother Nalim's home. Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. Nalim carries her grandson Tandin Geltshin in a sling on her back. The two children are the same age. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Day after Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Elephant: Elephant orphanage at Pinnawella, Sri Lanka.
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  • Sadhus (Hindu ascetics) congregate to bathe in the Shipra River during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.  Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world.  Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • A neighbor of Shahnaz Hossain Begum, in Bari Majlish village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Shahnaz Hossain Begum is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Shahnaz, a mother of four, got her first micro loan several years ago, from the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC) to buy cows to produce milk for sale. She was able to earn enough to build several rental rooms next to her home. She and her family don't drink the milk that helps provide their income.
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  • People showering at "The One Tree", a metal tree that has gas flames in the branches at night at Burning Man festival..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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  • A firefighting oil well worker employed by Safety Boss of Canada cools off in a tank of seawater in July 1991 during efforts to cap a well during the Kuwait Oil Well Fires. Ambient temperatures in the July desert exceeded 120 degrees F and often went much higher. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, Safiye Çinar and her daughter-in-law Feriye works diligently on the family laundry. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, oversees the cooking of lunch for guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • Laundry hanging on balconies and across a narrow street in Naples, Italy.
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  • Carlo and Marie Paule Kutten-Kass clothes drying on a line in the back garden of house in the town of Erpeldange in Bous, southeast of Luxembourg City, near the German border. Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • York Cliffs house at Cape Neddick, Maine.
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  • Clothes drying in the sun on a hillside near a family compound near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Kazuo Ukita relaxes in an ofuro (a Japanese bath that is meant for relaxation rather than washing). The water is generally kept in the tub and warmed before each use. Family members wash squatting on a stool with a bucket of hot water and a shower hose before entering the bath. When not in use the bath is covered with an insulated cover (seen behind Kazuo Ukita's head.) Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Kazuo Ukita relaxes in an ofuro (a Japanese bath that is meant for relaxation rather than washing). The water is generally kept in the tub and warmed before each use. Family members wash squatting on a stool with a bucket of hot water and a shower hose before entering the bath. When not in use the bath is covered with an insulated cover. Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Girls take a break from washing clothes and dishes in the Niger river at sunset in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Girls take a break from washing clothers and dishes in the Niger river at sunset in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Worshipers perform ritual washing before prayers at the Grand Mosque in Djenne, Mali. Africa.
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  • Crop dusting. After spraying cotton in Kern County, California, USA, washing out the airplane's hopper at the end of day.
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  • Crop dusting. After spraying cotton in Kern County, California, USA, washing out the airplane's hopper at the end of day.
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  • The main mourner, usually the eldest son or closest male family member, prepares for cremation rituals by getting his head and face shaved. There are a prescribed set of rituals for the entire process that started at the family's home with the washing of the body and wrapping for the travel to the burning ghats. The main mourner's hair and facial hair is shorn, (cost 15 rupees, by one of the many barbers near the ghats) and his nails are cut.
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  • The main mourner, usually the eldest son or closest male family member, prepares for cremation rituals by getting his head and face shaved. There are a prescribed set of rituals for the entire process that started at the family's home with the washing of the body and wrapping for the travel to the burning ghats. The main mourner's hair and facial hair is shorn, (cost 15 rupees, by one of the many barbers near the ghats) and his nails are cut. Family members at home also are shaved and cut.
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  • Ruma Akhter (center) walks under washing lines in the slum settlement near her home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Clothes drying on washing lines in the village of Bari Majlish, an hour outside Dhaka.
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  • An hour after the Patkar family has consumed breakfast, Sangeeta's kitchen helper is outside the kitchen door, sweeping and rinsing the alley beside the house after washing the breakfast dishes. Ujjain, India. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 172). The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Buddhist head monk attending the funeral ceremonial lunch in a village near Siem Reap, Cambodia for a 34 year old mother of 3 who died of a heart attack the day before while washing the family's breakfast dishes. Attended by family and friends and neighbors. A tent and shrine and funeral preparations are made in the family yard.
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  • In the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad, women wash clothes and themselves in water from the nearly dry riverbed, called a wadi. Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, home to 30,000 refugees from Darfur, Sudan. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. In November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Buaphet Khuenkaew washes her family's clothes in wash basins on the ground near her house. Published in Material World page 85. She and her family live in the wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand.
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  • Across the Ganges River from the cremation ghats in Varanasi, India, human remains wash up on the sandy shore. A human skull.
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat.
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  • A boy digs for water from a nearly dry riverbed (called a wadi) in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, home to 30,000 refugees from Darfur, Sudan. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. in the month of November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper.
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  • Because it is Ramadan, the month when Muslims fast during the daylight hours, everyone is working at a slower pace than usual. Indeed, some men use the occasion to lounge about for hours, dazzling passersby with their most elegant outfits. Even during the rest of the year, though, men can often be seen resting quietly in shady spots throughout Malian villages while their wives pound grain, wash clothes, care for children, cook, and gather firewood. Published in Material World, page 16. Mali.
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits- in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. In November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper..(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)..
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  • Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits- in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. In November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 67). /// This image is featured alongside the Aboubakar family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 56-57 for a family portrait.)
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  • Seoul, Korea International Airport. Toilet with auto wash, air, dry.
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  • The Itanoni Tortilleria ("Gourmet Tortillas") in Oaxaca, Mexico sells handmade tortillas from native corn that it contracts local growers to produce. In the back room, workers wash dried corn after cooking it. It is then ground into a moist flour that is pressed into tortillas and cooked on clay oven tops, called "comals".
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  • A worker from the Red Adair Company attempts to wash oil off his body after 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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  • A decomposing cow floats in the Ganges River across from the cremation ghats in Varanasi, India. Human remains also wash up on the sandy shore on this side of the Ganges. Varanasi, India.
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  • Lights illuminate the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California, before dawn. Pacific Ocean waves wash seaweed and kelp up onto the beach in the foreground.
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  • Amna Mustapha (in yellow dress) and a cousin fill earthen-walled pools with water for their animals near the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. They dip plastic containers into a six-foot well and then pour the water into the handmade pools. The millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall. Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season.
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  • The Breidjing Refugee Camp, located in Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border, shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. in the month of November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper.
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  • A woman carries some pots down to the Niger river to wash them at sunset in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. In November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (wearing yellow dress) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • To water their animals, Amna Mustapha (left) and a cousin must first dip plastic containers into a six-foot well. They then pour the water into a low earthen-walled pool from which the animals drink (the millet stalks at the edge of the trough keep the cascading water from breaking down the wall). Families take turns using the pools, which must be rebuilt often and will ultimately wash away during the rainy season. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 70).
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  • The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. In November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Sa Tuna village with white washed houses, Costa Brava, Spain. Costa Brava is a region of rugged coastline, beautiful beaches and resorts in northeastern Spain.
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  • In preparation for the upcoming harvest, barrels are washed at R. Lopez Heredia winery, Haro. (Located in the railway district on the edge of Haro.) La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Matsu Zakimi (with purple eyeshadow applied by her great-granddaughter) during the celebration for her 97th birthday,at a nursing home near Ogimi Village. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates; 88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts washed down with beer and saki. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Durga Tiwari, 35, is comforted by a family member as her mother, Savitridevi Mishra, is taken to the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat. This after the body has been washed, draped in a red and yellow shroud and marigold garlands and photographed for a family remembrance.
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  • A man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A young girl picks her way along the shoreline as a body burns at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A rowboat passes, distorted by the heat waves rising from a body burning at the Harishchandra cremation grounds on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A rowboat passes, distorted by the heat waves rising from a body burning at the Harishchandra cremation grounds on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Along the shoreline a body burns at the Harishchandra cremation grounds on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Laufafa Alatupe, 31, washes her family's clothes in a stream near the family home. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. Material World Project.
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  • Buaphet Khuenkaew washes her family's clothes on the ground near her house. She and her family live in the wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). For this Sunday brunch outside Hamburg, Germany, Jörg Melander rode his bicycle through late-November snow to get rolls and pastries from a bakery near home. His wife Susanne has just finished an all-night nursing shift, and is making the effort to enjoy the family meal, instead of going right to bed. But the bread, cheese, and jam washed down with tea, coffee, and hot chocolate are worth it. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 19).
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  • Matsu Zakimi (with purple eyeshadow applied by her great-granddaughter) during the celebration for her 97th birthday,at a nursing home near Ogimi Village. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates. 88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts washed down with beer and saki. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Squatting outside her UNHCR donated tent with her children, Sudanese Refugee D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane serves a pot of aiysh, the thick porridge that this refugee family eats three times a day. Despite losing almost everything in their flight from militia attacks, D'jimia keeps her improvised household as orderly as possible. To cover the ground inside, the family hauled in clean sand from the dry riverbed. D'jimia and the children sleep on two blankets, which she constantly airs out and washes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Squatting before the fire with her children, Sudanese Refugee D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane stirs a pot of aiysh, the thick porridge that this refugee family eats three times a day. Despite losing almost everything in their flight from militia attacks, D'jimia keeps her improvised household as orderly as possible. To cover the ground inside, the family hauled in clean sand from the dry riverbed. D'jimia and the children sleep on two blankets, which she constantly airs out and washes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Squatting before the fire with her children, Sudanese Refugee D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane stirs a pot of aiysh, the thick porridge that this refugee family eats three times a day. Despite losing almost everything in their flight from militia attacks, D'jimia keeps her improvised household as orderly as possible. To cover the ground inside, the family hauled in clean sand from the dry riverbed. D'jimia and the children sleep on two blankets, which she constantly airs out and washes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Squatting near the fire with her children, Sudanese Refugee D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane serves out aiysh, the thick porridge that this refugee family eats three times a day. Despite losing almost everything in their flight from militia attacks, D'jimia keeps her improvised household as orderly as possible. To cover the ground inside, the family hauled in clean sand from the dry riverbed. D'jimia and the children sleep on two blankets, which she constantly airs out and washes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Squatting near the fire with her children, Sudanese Refugee D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane serves out aiysh, the thick porridge that this refugee family eats three times a day. Despite losing almost everything in their flight from militia attacks, D'jimia keeps her improvised household as orderly as possible. To cover the ground inside, the family hauled in clean sand from the dry riverbed. D'jimia and the children sleep on two blankets, which she constantly airs out and washes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Squatting before the fire with her children, Sudanese Refugee D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane stirs a pot of aiysh, the thick porridge that this refugee family eats three times a day. Despite losing almost everything in their flight from militia attacks, D'jimia keeps her improvised household as orderly as possible. To cover the ground inside, the family hauled in clean sand from the dry riverbed. D'jimia and the children sleep on two blankets, which she constantly airs out and washes. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 64).
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  • Shells washed onto the beach in Naples, Florida, USA.
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  • Durga Tiwari, 35, is comforted by a family member as her mother, Savitridevi Mishra, is taken to the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat. This after the body has been washed, draped in a red and yellow shroud and marigold garlands and photographed for a family remembrance.
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  • A passing cow eats discarded marigold garlands along the shoreline as a body burns at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A traditional Thursday afternoon qat-chewing and tobacco-smoking session among friends in Sanaa, Yemen, can last five or six hours. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The men pick through the bag selecting leaves to chew until the masticated mass in their cheek is the size of a golf ball. Qat is harvested year-round.  Its leaves lose their potency within a day, so they must be picked, sorted, washed, and rushed to market daily.
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  • Kibet Serem hangs up laundry that he has just washed.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He is 25 years of age. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it.
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  • Fuao Lagavale, 13, washes her face at the water spigot outside the family's detached cooking house. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Buaphet Khuenkaew washes her family's clothes on the ground near her house Thailand. Work. She and her family live in the wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • Sangay washes her feet with water from a gourd before attending a religious festival at the local temple in Shingkhey village. This is part of the two-day ceremony--or pujo--that is held every year to bless the village. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. Shingkhey, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 79.
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  • A great granddaughter speaks with her great grandmother Matsu Zakimi, 97, during her birthday celebration at a nursing home near Ogimi Village. Shortly thereafter the young woman applies purple eyeshadow to the woman's eyelids before official birthday photographs. Most of the community has turned out to honor the birthdays of three residents, (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates?88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts washed down with beer and saki. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Squatting before the fire with her children, Sudanese Refugee D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane stirs a pot of aiysh, the thick porridge that this refugee family eats three times a day. Despite losing almost everything in their flight from militia attacks, D'jimia keeps her improvised household as orderly as possible. To cover the ground inside, the family hauled in clean sand from the dry riverbed. D'jimia and the children sleep on two blankets, which she constantly airs out and washes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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