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  • Standing beneath hanging sheep carcasses, five sheep wait patiently; soon it will be their turn at the slaughterhouse, which is attached to the Zumbagua market in Ecuador. At the live-animal market a quarter mile away, shoppers can pick out the animals they want, then have them killed, skinned, and cleaned. The entire process, including the time it takes to walk the sheep from the market to the slaughterhouse, takes less than an hour. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 113).
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  • Making the long return trip from the weekly market in the valley, Orlando Ayme leads his father-in-law's horse, while his wife Ermelinda (center) carries the bundled-up baby and some of the groceries and Livia trudges along with her schoolbooks. Alvarito has literally run up the steep path ahead; like 4-year-old boys everywhere, he is a tiny ball of pure energy. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 109). (MODEL IMAGE RELEASED)
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  • Wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Ermelinda Ayme spends part of her morning in the windowless cooking hut, cleaning barley in the light from the doorway. After she blows away the dust and chaff, the grain is ready to be ground for breakfast porridge. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 114). (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Cultivating potatoes on a windy afternoon, Ermelinda Ayme wraps her baby in two shawls tied in different directions. When she and her husband Orlando arrived at the field, a ten-minute walk from their home, they said a quick prayer to Pacha Mamma (Mother Earth) before working the land. Occasionally, Ermelinda has to adjust the baby's position, but generally she has no problem carrying her tiny passenger. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 117). (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Ermelinda Ayme cooks empanadas for her children in the family's earthen kitchen house as one of her sons watches. Husband Orlando slices onions to help his wife, an unusual task for a village man to undertake in Ecuador. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Patchwork fields on steep hills near Ambato, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Ayme family outside their thatch-roofed adobe-brick-walled cooking hut. The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Returning from the weekly market in Simiatug with most of their purchases strapped onto a borrowed horse, Orlando Ayme (35, father), leads the horse and Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo (37, mother), and Livia Rocío (15, daughter) follow. Their home in Tingo is an hour walk up the mountain. Orlando sold two sheep for $35 to buy food for his family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • The Ayme family sits on the dirt floor of their kitchen and eats soup and empanadas for breakfast. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • The Ayme family heads off to cultivate one of their potato fields on their small farm in the village of Tingo, near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE)
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their home.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; interior, Colorado Indian home.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their house.
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  • The patio restaurant of a hotel in downtown Quito, Equador.  Photography workshop for South American photojournalists taught by USA professional photographers and editors.
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  • Private chapel interior of Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Interior of Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • A local Ecuador photographer talks with Carol Guzy (right) at a party at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • A cook showing roasted cui (guinea pigs) at a party at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Courtyard fountain with private chapel at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Pablo Corral Vega with a platter of roasted cui (guinea pigs) and a bottle of wine at a party at his farm house in Ecuador.
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  • Interior of Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Interior of Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • A mountain lake near Otavalo, Ecuador.
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  • David Griffin shops at the outdoor market at Otavalo, Ecuador.
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  • David Griffin shops at the outdoor market at Otavalo, Ecuador.
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