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)
{ 50 images found }

Loading ()...

  • Nomadic herder Karsal pours butter tea onto his breakfast tsampa in his tent on the Tibetan Plateau.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    TIB_060624_256_xw.jpg
  • Nomadic herders Karsal and his wife Phurba pour butter tea onto their breakfast tsampa as their son watches at their home in the Tibetan Plateau.  (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    TIB_060624_252_xxw.jpg
  • Pilgrims pour steaming butter tea at a small Buddhist monastery near the Jokhang, in Lhasa, Tibet. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    TIB_060622_088_xxw.jpg
  • Pilgrims pour steaming butter tea at a small Buddhist monastery near the Jokhang, in Lhasa, Tibet.
    TIB_060622_089_xw.jpg
  • Butter churning, cooking, and child care in Namgay and Nalim's home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and her daughter Sangay care for the children and work in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
    Bhu_mw_714_xs.jpg
  • Monks and pilgrims prepare steaming butter tea at a small Buddhist monastery near the Jokhang, in Lhasa, Tibet. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    TIB_060622_097_xw.jpg
  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway. Magnus, 15, makes his lunch in their farmhouse kitchen. Model-Released.
    NOR_130530_105_x.jpg
  • Michael Sturm family at suppertime in Hamburg, Germany. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
    GER_130612_320_x.jpg
  • Astrid Hollmann with snacks in her kitchen for her sons and daughter after school 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_057_x.jpg
  • Astrid Hollmann with snacks in her kitchen for her sons and daughter after school 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_057_x.jpg
  • Astrid Hollmann cutting bread in her kitchen for her sons' snacks after school 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_031_x.jpg
  • Astrid Hollmann cutting bread in her kitchen for her sons' snacks after school 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_031_x.jpg
  • Michael Sturm family at suppertime in Hamburg, Germany. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
    GER_130612_320_x.jpg
  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal and his wife Phurba eat inside their handmade yak wool tent home in the Tibetan Plateau. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
    TIB_060624_284_xw.jpg
  • Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. At supper, Astrid Hollmann, 38, and Michael Strum, 38, and their three children Lenard, 12, Malte Erik, 10, and Lillith, 2.5 Model Released.
    GER_130612_146_x.jpg
  • Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. At supper, Astrid Hollmann, 38, and Michael Strum, 38, and their three children Lenard, 12, Malte Erik, 10, and Lillith, 2.5 Model Released.
    GER_130612_146_x.jpg
  • Lobsterman Samuel Tucker's breakfast of fresh shrimp and eggs. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 3,800 kcals. He is 50; 6 feet 1 and 1/2 inches and 179 pounds.
    USA_070321_41_xxw.jpg
  • Karsal, a nomadic yak herder, with his typical day's worth of food inside the family's yak-wool tent in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 5,600 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 135 pounds. A pile of yak dung, used for fuel, looms in the background. MODEL RELEASED.
    TIB.060623_311_xxw.jpg
  • Six-year-old Nyima Dun Drup takes a turn at the butter churn as Phurba puts a pot of milk on the fire and Karsal talks to a neighbor at the Tibetan nomadic family's home in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    TIB_060624_079_xxw.jpg
  • Nalim holds her two-year-old daughter Zekom in a traditional hand-fashioned back sling as she works at the butter churn.  Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 77. Nalim and her daughter Sangay care for the children and work in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
    Bhu_mw_08_xxs.jpg
  • Gopal Jee Singh, 65, from Bihar, holds a butter lamp above his dead wife Subhadra Singh, 60 for a local photographer who takes photographs at the burning ghats and sells prints to families that want a keepsake. Subhadra died last night at 8 p.m. and he and his sons brought her here to Varanasi for the funeral rite, arriving at 3 a.m..Mr. Singh says that his wife didn't want to be cremated and so he and their sons brought her here to the Ganges for a different funeral ritual then most others have.
    IND_040412_748_x.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with her child outside a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
    NAM_090307_140_xw.jpg
  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shopping with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend..
    NAM_090307_076_xw.jpg
  • Roadside advertisement for Rama butter spread on an overpass at the minibus station in Soweto, South Africa. Material World Project.
    Saf_mw_702_xs.jpg
  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). As part of the celebration that marks the first electricity to come to this region of Bhutan, Chato Namgay (in red robe) lights the ritual butter lamps on an altar below the transformer on the power pole. Above a photo of the king, a sign reads: "Release of Power Supply to Rural Households Under Wangdi Phodrang Dzon Khag to Commemorate Coronation Silver Jubilee Celebration of His Majesty, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk." (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
    BHU01_0036_xf1bs.jpg
  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio co-authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, interview Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The young woman is the mother of three children and bore her first child at age 14.  The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_466_xw.jpg
  • IND_040417_239_x<br />
Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one’s body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore—a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi. There are other rivers in India, such as the Shipra which flows through the sacred city of Ujjain, that are considered sacred as well, but none holds the importance of the Ganges. Sometimes a small dummy representing the person will be burned at Jalasi.<br />
Only male family members are present and tend to the bodies at the cremation site as no show of emotion is allowed and also, they don’t want any of them jumping onto the fire, says one manager at the ghat. The body is carried to the water’s edge for a last dip, and then the main mourner prepares for his role in the ritual burning.<br />
The main mourner—usually the eldest son or closest male family member’s hair and facial hair is shorn, and his nails are cut. He wears a simple dhoti (traditional Indian male’s wraparound clothing). The chief mourner follows a prescribed ritual, which involves circling the body and showering it with ghee (clarified butter) and incense—like sandalwood—again often purchased from one of the local funereal accessories vendors. It takes about three hours for an average sized body to burn completely. If a family is poor and doesn’t have enough money to buy the right amount of wood to burn the body, then wood left over from other fires might be used. It takes about 350 kilos of wood to burn a body completely.<br />
Afterward, the workers dump ashes from the burned pyres and douse
    IND_040417_239_x.jpg
  • Çinar family share a breakfast of tea, tomatoes, spiced meat, bread, feta cheese, olives, sugar, butter, and rose jam. The eat sitting on the floor of their living room in their small house in Golden Horn area, Istanbul, Turkey. Food, Meal..
    Tur_mw2_701_xs.jpg
  • Safiye Çinar and her daughter-in-law Feriye prepare breakfast for their families in Feriye's downstairs apartment in the house they share in the Golden Horn (or Haliç) area of Istanbul, Turkey. They will serve tea, tomatoes, spiced meat, bread, feta cheese, olives, sugar, butter, and rose jam on a communal platter.
    Tur_mw2_19_xs.jpg
  • Gopal Jee Singh, 65, from Bihar, holds a butter lamp above his dead wife Subhadra Singh, 60 for a local photographer who takes photographs at the burning ghats and sells prints to families that want a keepsake. Subhadra died last night at 8 p.m. and he and his sons brought her here to Varanasi for the funeral rite, arriving at 3 a.m.
    IND_040412_304_x.jpg
  • Three monks chant and read holy Buddhist scripts outside their monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The sculpted figurines, called tormas, are offerings made of tsampa (barley flour) and butter.
    TIB_060621_046_xxw.jpg
  • During chilly mornings and evenings in northern Namibia's rainy season, the women of Okapembambu village draw steaming buckets of milk from their cows, despite the distraction of ankle-deep mud and manure. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Milk and its by-products are the Himba's most important source of nutrition. The women add a bit of soured milk to the fresh liquid to hasten the process of natural fermentation, and they shake calabash gourds for hours to make butter. They drink some of the soured milk, use some to make their cornmeal porridge, and mix butterfat with ochre to make their body cream.
    NAM_090308_603_xxw.jpg
  • A Himba chief stands with his two wives outside his home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March.  The Himba culture is polygamous. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, they covers themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_617_xw.jpg
  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_554_xw.jpg
  • Viahondjera fetches water from a shallow, muddy river near her father's village in northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_434_xw.jpg
  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_024_xw.jpg
  • Traditionally dressed Himba women sit around a fire at their home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  Like most traditional Himba women, they cover themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_001_xw.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with a child speaks to three men  outside a grocery store in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
    NAM_090307_139_xw.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
    NAM_090307_106_xw.jpg
  • As the main supply center for 500 miles in any direction, the general store in Ittoqqortoormiit, the bigger village (pop. 550) across the bay from Cap Hope, sells everything from guns to butter. Although such stores sell seal, musk ox, and other Arctic meats, most Greenlander families still obtain their meat from hunting. Hunting to feed the family is Emil Madsen's lifelong pursuit; taught to him by his father. Too fill his family's larder, Emil is often gone for a week or more. Not surprisingly, prices in the general store are high, but the Danish government heavily subsidizes Greenlanders' incomes to the tune of $6,786 per person in 1999, the latest year for which statistics are available. Geopolitically, Greenland is part of Denmark, hence the close ties of the people and the cross-immigration. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 153).
    GRE04_0009_xxf1rw.jpg
  • As part of the celebration that marks the first electricity to come to this village in central Bhutan, ritual butter lamps and food offerings on an altar with lightbulbs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
    BHU01_0030_xf1bs.jpg
  • Viahondjera Musutua (far left), a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside her hut with members of her family in the Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend. The photograph was made in Okapembambu village, where she was raised. She is here with her youngest child helping with the corn harvest to bring back corn for her husband and children.
    NAM_090308_483_xw.jpg
  • A Himba tribeswoman fixes her hair outside her home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_422_xw.jpg
  • Sitting in lawn chairs under a tent with other guests of honor, a lama takes a swig of Pepsi during the electricity celebration. Chato Namgay (in red robe) has just lit the ritual butter lamps on an altar below the transformer on the power pole. Above a photo of the king, a sign reads: "Release of Power Supply to Rural Households Under Wangdi Phodrang Dzon Khag to Commemorate Coronation Silver Jubilee Celebration of His Majesty, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk." Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 43). The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
    BHU01_0008_xxf1s.jpg
  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_560_xw.jpg
  • Western Samoans hunting for palolo reef worms at night near Apia, Western Samoa. The rich taste of palolo is enjoyed raw or fried with butter, onions or eggs, or spread on toast. Palolo is the edible portion of a polychaete worm (Eunice viridis) that lives in shallow coral reefs throughout the south central Pacific. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
    Wsa_meb_72_xs.jpg
  • A prayer and then supper at Joel and Teresa Salatin's eighteenth-century farmhouse in Shenandoah, Virginia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Joel (center) and Teresa (at his left) are joined by Joel's mother, Lucille, who lives on the farm, and farm apprentices Andy Wendt and Ben Beichler. Supper tonight is Teresa's honey-baked Polyface Farms chicken, which ?can't be served without her homemade applesauce,? says Joel. In addition, there are buttered potatoes, garden-fresh green beans with cured bacon, buttered beets, and sliced fresh garden vegetables. But Joel's favorite meal of the day? Breakfast! ?Aw man, pancakes, eggs, and sausage or bacon!?
    USA_071018_481_xxw.jpg
  • Doug Brown's breakfast of pork and onions in gravy with buttered toast in Riverview, Australia, outside Brisbane. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 244).
    AUS104_0013_xxf1.jpg
  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Breakfast during the children's summer vacation at the Brown family home in Riverview, Australia (outside of Brisbane) is low-key and unstructured. Everyone eats when the mood strikes them. This morning Doug cooked himself a hearty breakfast of fried meat, onions, gravy, and buttered toast, while overseeing his wife's meal of cereal and juice. Since her stroke, Marge has been trying to eat a more healthy diet. Also pictured are Vanessa attending to daughter Sinead, and Rhy standing at the counter eating a sandwich. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
    AUS104_1881_xf1b.jpg
  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Breakfast during the children's summer vacation at the Brown family home in Riverview, Australia (outside of Brisbane) is low-key and unstructured. Everyone eats when the mood strikes them. Vanessa bustles about, scrambling eggs for Sinead and herself. The boys help themselves to cereal and sandwiches. Meanwhile, Doug cooks himself a hearty breakfast of fried meat, onions, gravy, and buttered toast, and oversees his wife's meal of cereal and juice; since her stroke, Marge has been trying to eat a more healthy diet. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 29).
    AUS104_0002_xxf1.jpg

Peter Menzel Photography

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