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Peter Menzel Portfolio

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  • Metal posts placed precisely using a robotic system provide a stable anchor for magnetic attachment of this artificial body part at the Virchow Campus Clinic, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Robo sapiens Project.
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  • Water beetles marinated in ginger and soy sauce with a carrot garnish against a background of swimming water beetles, Guangzhou Province, China. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects page 85 Inset.  See also page 6)
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A delectable grasshopper (inago, from the Japanese Alps) marinated in a soy-sugar sauce. Mariko Urabe is eating this appetizer in a small basement restaurant in Tokyo that specializes in cuisine from Nagano prefecture (grasshoppers, silk worm pupae, zaza-mushi). (pages 2,3)
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  • Mealworm covered caramel apples is one of the many insect-based novelty sweets made by the Hotlix Candy Company, Pismo Beach, California. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • South Korea Slow Life Festival kiosk
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  • Amuloke Walelo and her husband prepare the day's vegetables with the blood-red juice of the buah merah fruit, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 82,83)
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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits on a rooftop in the old Yemeni city of Sanaa 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 in the month of April was 3300 kcals. He is 50 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 148 pounds. Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race, which began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. Sunraycer is shown here on the 3rd day of the race, moving along a dead straight section of the Stuart Highway (Route 87) in the outback 100 km south of Devil's Marbles passing the skeleton of a kangaroo. Sunraycer was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. Sunraycer's power source was an array of 7,200 photovoltaic cells, joined to form a hood over the top and back of the vehicle. (1987)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen family on a day of dogsled travel. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. The dog sled is on flat sea ice here: a giant iceberg is in the background at the ice edge.  (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Napa Valley, California: Atlas Wildfire, October 2017. United States: The Atlas Wildfire advances toward the home of Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio in the eastern hills of the Napa Valley, California, on October 10, 2017 at about 4 AM. The fire started nearly 30 hours earlier, and when finally contained a week later, had burned more than 50,000 acres and 700 structures, killing 6 people. After more than two decades of preparing their structures and property for wildfire, the couple declined to evacuate—estimating that the odds of saving their home and studio were better if they stayed. They decreased ladder fuel and watered grounds and structures over 45 hours, and with the help of the U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire, saved their home and office from burning. The fire charred about 50 acres of their 69-acre property. <br />
A multi-year drought in California followed by a record heavy rainy season resulted in copious vegetation, which dried out during the summer and fall and provided abundant fuel for a perfect storm for a firestorm—high winds and low humidity. <br />
After a career spent photographing extremes and catastrophes around the world, when the disaster threatened their home, Menzel documented the wild land fire while chain-sawing limbs from trees and setting hose, as he worked with his wife and first responders to save their property. <br />
Statistic sources: <br />
California Droughts Compared | USGS California Water Science Center <br />
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http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-california-fires-20171014-story.html<br />
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www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1866
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  • The afternoon sun weakly shines though the smoke of the burning Magwa oil fields near Ahmadi in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War. (May, 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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Kuwait.. Tornados of smoke reflected in an oil lake in the Al Burgan field after the first Bush War, the Gulf War.
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Several birds landed in an oil lake and slowly drowned in the Rumaila Oil Field of Southern Iraq. An extinguished well gushed for several hours before being capped, creating a lake of oil. Unwitting birds mistake the glistening liquid for water, a deadly mistake. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • The Crown Prince of Kuwait visiting the oil well fires for the first time in May which were set immediately after the end of the Gulf War. The royal family fled and when they returned they finally went out to see what all the smoke was about in the burning Magwa oil fields 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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  • An oil well fire specialist from the Texas company Boots and Coots shields himself from the intense heat of the fire so that he can more closely direct other workers using equipment on the end of long booms attached to shielded bulldozers in the Kuwait oil fields. The company was one of those brought in to fight the Kuwait oil well fires 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.
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  • One of several hundred camels grazing in the Rumaila Oil Field of southern Iraq walks in front of a burning oil well being fought by the Kuwaiti Wild Well Killers, a division of the Kuwait Oil Company. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • SOM_36_xs.Camel slaughtered for meat by the side of the road in Mogadishu, Somalia. March 1992.  .
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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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  • Bamboo bridge across the Nam Khan River, Luang Prabang, Laos. Monks crossing.
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  • A woman carrying water in a plastic teapot in a traditional manner walks to the city of Djenne, Mali, on market day.  Published in Material World, page 20. Material World Project.
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  • Dario Sattui and Irina in the Great Hall of Castello di Amorosa Winery, Napa Valley, California. Fire added digitally from an earlier frame of same situation.
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  • Dawn from the top of the Thabelkhmauk Pagoada, Bagan, Myanmar, (also known as Burma). The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child: every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. .There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it..MODEL RELEASED..
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  • After he removes its skin, Fumio Hara gets the once-over from a face robot in the lab he co-directs with Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Science University of Tokyo, Japan. The first of several face robots made in his lab, it has a CCD camera in its left eye that sends images to neural-network software that recognizes faces and their expressions. Calling upon its repertoire of programmed reactions, it activates the motors and pulleys beneath its flexible skin to produce facial expressions of its own. The project is relatively unusual in its focus, many researchers believe that making robots walk and manipulate objects is so difficult that facial expressions are not yet worth working on. Hara disagrees, arguing that robots with animated faces will communicate with humans much more easily. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 74-75.
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  • JAP.rs.15.qxxs.Ten years and tens of millions of dollars in the making, the Honda P3 strides down its course at the car company's secret research facility on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan. The product of a costly decade-long effort, the Honda robotic project was only released from its shroud of corporate secrecy in 1996. In a carefully choreographed performance, P3 walks a line, opens a door, turns a corner, and, after a safety chain is attached, climbs a flight of stairs. Despite its mechanical sophistication, it can't respond to its environment. If people were to step in its way, the burly robot would knock them down without noticing them. Ultimately, of course, Honda researchers hope to change that. But, in what seems an attempt to hedge the company's bet, P3 senior engineer Masato Hirose is also working on sending the robot to places where it cannot possibly injure anyone. In the future, he hopes, the robot will be rocketed to distant planets, to remotely explore places human beings cannot yet visit. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 34-35.
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