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  • Copenhagen, Denmark. Roundtower in the old city hosted Hungry Planet exhibit for several months.
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  • David Scharf, US electron microscopist and photographer. He was educated in physics in New Jersey, and then worked at a variety of electronics and aerospace companies using conventional photography. He first used a scanning electron microscope (SEM) while at an aerospace company. Shortly after this he decided to become a photographer specializing in images of the very small. Scharf has his own SEM, linked to a computer for control and coloring of his images. He has been published in journals such as Life, National Geographic and Geo. He has published a book of his SEMs entitled Magnifications. Photographed at his home in Los Angeles, Model Released 1994.
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  • David Scharf, US electron microscopist and photographer. He was educated in physics in New Jersey, and then worked at a variety of electronics and aerospace companies using conventional photography. He first used a scanning electron microscope (SEM) while at an aerospace company. Shortly after this he decided to become a photographer specializing in images of the very small. Scharf has his own SEM, linked to a computer for control and coloring of his images. He has been published in journals such as Life, National Geographic and Geo. He has published a book of his SEMs entitled Magnifications. Photographed at his home in Los Angeles, 1994. Images on a light table in his basement lab.
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  • David Scharf, US electron microscopist and photographer. He was educated in physics in New Jersey, and then worked at a variety of electronics and aerospace companies using conventional photography. He first used a scanning electron microscope (SEM) while at an aerospace company. Shortly after this he decided to become a photographer specializing in images of the very small. Scharf has his own SEM, linked to a computer for control and coloring of his images. He has been published in journals such as Life, National Geographic and Geo. He has published a book of his SEMs entitled Magnifications. Photographed at his home in Los Angeles. Model Released. 1994.
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  • The extended Lagavale family, dressed in their Sunday best for the White Sunday holiday church services, pose for the camera in front of their house in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. White Sunday (also called Children's Day), is celebrated on the second Sunday of October each year. In this tradition brought to the island by the London Missionary Society, the children receive new clothes and gifts, and festive games are played. Most attend church services and then gather for family feasts that feature foods like pork, taro, and coconuts. Published in Material World, pages 174-175.
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  • The Lagavale family with all their possessions in front of their house. The 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. They farm, fish, and make crafts to support themselves. They also work for others locally, which helps supplement their modest needs. Published in Material World, pages 170-171.
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  • Soumana Natomo and the rest of his family watch as Mamadou, 3, is given his bath. Because Fatoumata Toure, the household's second wife is still nursing a baby, Pama Kondo, the first wife, carries all the water from the village well for the family's use. In the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Published in Material World, page 19.
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke's daily dose of afternoon table tennis at the Otter Club. He is playing against one of his valets Lenin, and takes his game very seriously. Published in Stern Magazine, 28 December 2000, page 77. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Woodside, T.J. Rodgers, president & CEO of Cypress Semi Conductors, at home in his new multi-million dollar Woodside home. Rodgers is President and C.E.O. of Cypress Semiconductor. Outspoken, right-wing, once called the "meanest boss in America" by a magazine. Rodgers is a fervent football fan of the Green Bay Packers?he has an autographed helmet from quarterback Bart Star and is seen here sitting on his couch with his dog, both wearing plastic "cheese heads"-- symbols of team loyalty. Rodgers suggested this photo saying that if it is published, he would probably be able to more easily buy season tickets to Green Bay Packers games (Wisconsin). Model Released (1999).
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  • Dan Paluska, the mechanical engineering grad student leading M2's hardware design and construction, is seen here in a double exposure that melds him with his machine for a photo illustration. The lower torso and extremity robot, called M2, took its first tentative steps last year here in the basement of MIT's Leg Laboratory. Established in 1980 by Marc Raibert, the Leg Lab was home to the first robots that mimicked human walking; swinging like an inverted pendulum from step to step. Similar to image published on the cover of Wired Magazine, September 2000. MIT Leg Lab, Cambridge, MA.
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  • Dan Paluska, the mechanical engineering grad student leading M2's hardware design and construction, is seen here in a double exposure that melds him with his machine for a photo illustration. The lower torso and extremity robot, called M2, took its first tentative steps last year here in the basement of MIT's Leg Laboratory. Established in 1980 by Marc Raibert, the Leg Lab was home to the first robots that mimicked human walking; swinging like an inverted pendulum from step to step. Similar to image published on the cover of Wired Magazine, September 2000. MIT Leg Lab, Cambridge, MA.
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  • Professor Robert J. Full's Poly-PEDAL Lab at UC Berkeley has been working with roboticists for years, supplying them with information on small animal locomotion that is used to conStruct innovative robots. Recently, the Lab has been working with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), testing and evaluating artificial muscles. Dr. Kenneth Meijer (from Holland) compares and measures a Stanford Artificial Muscle with a natural one from the leg of the Death Head Cockroach. After cooling the cockroach and exposing leg extensor muscle number 179, an electrode is suctioned into the muscle to simulate the nerve-to-muscle connection. Published in Stern Magazine, February 11th, 2000.
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  • The Skeen family of Pearland, Texas, outside their home with all of their possessions. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 136-137. Ricky Skeen and his wife Pattie Skeen, with their two children, Michael and Julie. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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  • The Abdulla family with all of their possessions pose for a portrait in front of their home in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Published in the book Material World, pages 236-237. Saif is a college professor who received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in the U.S. His older children have attended school in the U.S. as well.  Like many Kuwaitis the Abdullas enjoy a high standard of living, subsidized by the oil rich country. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • Paugata Lagavale (in red) and a friend from college pluck chickens for dinner in Western Samoa. Published in Material World page 173. Food, Work. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa.
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  • The main course for a feast at the Lagavale family home in Western Samoa is a freshly killed pig that roasts on a pile of volcanic rocks heated by fire. Also on the fire is the pig's liver and peeled taro root. Published in Material World, page 172. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa.
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  • The lives of the majority of Thai people are dominated by traditional agricultural rhythms and the sounds of Buddhist rituals at the nearby temple. In homes across the country the most important image is Buddha. The image shown here is a bas-relief of Buddha at the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. Published in Material World page 83.
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  • A group of children on the street play checkers with beer bottle caps on a homemade checkerboard in Soweto, South Africa. Soweto is the nickname of Southwest Township, a sprawling lawless community outside Johannesburg. Published in Material World on page 26. South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Children at the neighborhood daycare in Soweto, South Africa with traces of breakfast on their faces: pap (corn meal mixed with water). Published in Material World, page 24. This is the daycare center where Simon's son George and nephew Mateo attend while their parents are at work. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Poppy Qampie offers coffee to a fellow employee at Options in Training, a job-skills-teaching company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is an office assistant. Published in Material World, page 24. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Simon Qampie cuts the grass around his family's tiny house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 22-23. Material World Project.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • The Regzen family outside their ger with all of their possessions, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Published in Material World pages 40-41. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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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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  • Women and girls pound millet grain to make flour for porridge in Djenne, Mali. Talking and singing often accompany this very physical task. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 16.
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  • Natomo family dinner of rice porridge cooks on the hearth over a wood fire.  Published in Material World, Meals of the World gallery, page 176. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together.
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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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  • The Natomo family with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Published in Material World, page 14. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together.
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  • 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.
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  • Nine-year-old Mio Ukita wants to be in the Olympics, so four or five times a week she bicycles to a neighborhood health club to do laps in the pool for 2 hours. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 54. 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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  • The Ukita Family in front of their home with all of their possessions, Tokyo, Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 48-49.
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  • The Thoroddsen Family posed with all of their possessions in front of their home, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. Published in the book Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 162-163. The Thoroddsen family lives in a 2,000 square foot wooden frame house overlooking the harbor in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland (near Reykjavik). Bjorn is a pilot for Iceland Air and Margaret (called Linda) is a milliner.
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  • Photographer Peter Menzel poses with Buddhist Monks in Shingkhey, Bhutan, while on assignment shooting for the Material World Project. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, back cover, inside flap.
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  • Namgay family pit toilet in Shingkhey, Bhutan, was part of a program mandated by the country's king to force the Bhutanese to use a specific location for toileting. This program has not been a success. Most families still use the surrounding bushes and fields. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, Toilets of the World page 225.
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  • 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.
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  • Especially fond of the children, Uncle Kinley Dorji (seated at right) has given up marriage to help with childcare in his sister Nalim's house. A typical task: feeding a weekend breakfast of sweet, thick rice soup to Tandin Geltshin, one of the two-year-olds. His namesake and nephew, Kinley (standing at left) observes the jumble of children from the lofty distance of his 17 years. A student at a boarding school an hour's walk away, he is home only for weekends. Namgay and Nalim's family lives in Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages76-77.
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  • Well-worn and water damaged copy of Material World: A Global Family Portrait that was given (new) to Nalim and Namgay's family after it was published in 1994. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke donned scuba gear for this photograph for the first time since 1991 and dives in the pool at the Otter Swim Club. Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in part for the excellent scuba diving more than 40 years ago. He is too frail to dive in the ocean. Published in Stern Magazine, 28 December 2000 issue, page 76. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke sits in his wheelchair (he has post-polio syndrome) at the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, upon a checkerboard-patterned area facing the sea. Clarke wrote 3001 while living in this hotel. He wrote 2001 while living in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. When asked about Hal and Hal's legacy (artificial intelligence), Clarke said that Hal was possible but asked if that was a good idea. He said that he believed intelligent machines will come, but then there is the question of consciousness. "I think, therefore I am, I think," he said. The photograph Illustrates this quote. Published in Germany's Stern Magazine, 12 December 2001, pages 74-75 and table of contents. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Dan Paluska, the mechanical engineering grad student leading M2's hardware design and construction, is seen here in a double exposure that melds him with his machine for a photo illustration. The lower torso and extremity robot, called M2, took its first tentative steps last year here in the basement of MIT's Leg Laboratory. Established in 1980 by Marc Raibert, the Leg Lab was home to the first robots that mimicked human walking; swinging like an inverted pendulum from step to step. Similar to image published on the cover of Wired Magazine, September 2000. MIT Leg Lab, Cambridge, MA.
    Usa_rszz_705_120_xs.jpg
  • Dan Paluska, the mechanical engineering grad student leading M2's hardware design and construction, is seen here in a double exposure that melds him with his machine for a photo illustration. The lower torso and extremity robot, called M2, took its first tentative steps last year here in the basement of MIT's Leg Laboratory. Established in 1980 by Marc Raibert, the Leg Lab was home to the first robots that mimicked human walking; swinging like an inverted pendulum from step to step. Similar to image published on the cover of Wired Magazine, September 2000. MIT Leg Lab, Cambridge, MA.
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  • The Lagavale family with all their possessions in front of their house. The 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. They farm, fish, and make crafts to support themselves. They also work for others locally, which helps supplement their modest needs. Published in Material World, pages 170-171.
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  • The Kuenkaew Family, 5:30 pm, May 31 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Ban Muang Wa, Thailand. Published in Material World, pages 80-81. The Khuenkaews are a farming family that grows rice for personal use, and to sell for income. The Khuenkaew's live in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • The Regzen family outside their ger with all of their possessions, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Published in Material World pages 40-41. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. They live in a squatter's area, as do thousands of other Mongols who moved here from the rural countryside.
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  • The Natomo family with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Published in Material World, page 14. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. They have separate households but share meals in the courtyard of Pama's house.  From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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  • The Ukita Family in front of their home with all of their possessions, Tokyo, Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 48-49. From Peter Menzel's Material World: A Global Family Portrait Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • The Thoroddsen Family posed with all of their possessions in front of their home, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. Published in the book Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 162-163.
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  • The Costa Family outside their home with all of their possessions, Havana, Cuba. Published in the book Material World, pages 106-107. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • Laufafa Lagavale begins cooking at daybreak in the detached Lagavale family cookhouse, under the glow of a single light bulb in preparation for the feast celebrating White Sunday, which is celebrated on the second Sunday of October each year. Traditionally on this holiday, the children receive new clothes and gifts, and festive games are played. Most attend church services and then gather for huge family feasts that feature foods like pork, taro, and coconuts. Western Samoa. Published in Material World, page 173.
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  • Auseuga Lagavale, the matai (head) of his extended family, is cooking his favorite coconut sauce, in preparation for a feast at the Lagavale home in Western Samoa. The recipe: wring out fresh coconut meat with the fibers from the husk, boil juice in a bowl by droping in rocks heated by fire, dribble in sugar, stir constantly until the milky white sauce thickens. He is cooking in the family's detached cooking shed behind the main house. Published in Material World, page 172.
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  • In Western Samoa, the preparation of food often begins in the lagoon just outside the family home. Here, son-in-law Alatupe Alatupe spears an eel for dinner. The family dugout outrigger canoe anchored just beyond him will serve as his transportation back to shore a short distance away. Published in Material World, page 172. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa.
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  • The Skeen family of Pearland, Texas, outside their home with all of their possessions. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 136-137. Ricky Skeen, 36, and his wife Pattie Skeen, 34, with their two children, Michael, 7 and Julie, 10. Material World Project.
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  • After the death of a 72-year old man who lived across the road from the Khuenkaew family of the Material World Project, his family followed Thai tradition and bought a castle-like, wood-and-crepe paper funeral bier and placed the body on top. Then the village held a two-day wake, complete with tents, music, gambling, and outdoor barbecues. Gifts were piled atop the casket. Afterward, the men carried the bier on long bamboo poles to the cemetery. The family posed for photographs in front of the bier, said good-bye to the dead man, and left the cemetary-keeper to burn the remains. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait. pages 86 & 87. Thailand.
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  • Buaphet Khuenkaew avoids working during the heat of the afternoon and dozes on the teak floor in front of the television that is showing one of her favorite Thai soap operas. Published in Material World, page 84. 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.
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  • Nine-year-old Visith Khuenkaew, left, and his fellow third grade classmates work on math problems at school near their village of Ban Muang Wa, Thailand. Published in Material World, page 84. 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.
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  • On a slow Saturday in Ban Muang Wa village, outside Chiang Mai, Thailand, the hottest action in the village is in the cool shade under the Khuenkaew's house. Three weeks ago, Boontham and Bourphet gave their son Visith, 9, a hand-held video game, and the household has been filled with its beeps and buzzes ever since. Here his best friend plays with the game as Visith's 14-year-old sister Jeeraporn, left, and her friends watch. Published in Material World page 82. 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.
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  • Thirty Bhuddhist temples compete in a temple drumming contest near Ban Muang Wa village, Thailand. Music. Religion. Published in Material World page 87. This is an especial favorite pastime of many locals including the Khuenkaew family of Ban Muang Wa village. They live there 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.
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  • Leah and Anna, Poppy Qampie's mother and sister, respectively, visit in the kitchen of Poppy's house in Soweto, South Africa. Published in Material World page 27. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • The bells of Regina Mundi Church ring out, calling the faithful to Soweto's largest Roman Catholic Church for Sunday service, where they receive communion. Published in Material World on page 26. South Africa.
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  • Poppy and Simon Qampie's main purchase at a supermarket is always corn meal, which they mix with water to form what is known as pap: hot cornmeal porridge. Published in Material World page 25..The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Getting to work can be frightening for Poppy Qampie and her husband Simon. The trains that come into Phomolong station in Soweto are often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The danger posed by robbers is so great that sometimes Poppy opts for a minibus ride instead; although that too has become a dangerous form of transportation in recent years. Published in Material World pages 24 & 25. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • 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.
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  • The Castillo Balderas family of Guadalajara, Mexico, outside their home with all of their possessions. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 144-145.
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  • Because the household's second wife, Fatoumata Toure, is still nursing her newest baby, Pama Kondo, the household's first wife, carries all the water from the village well for the family's use. This morning, the water has an immediate use: bathing the children in her family courtyard. In the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Published in Material World, page 19.
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  • A friend ties her baby to her back with a piece of fabric after an afternoon visit with Pama Kondo in the Natomo family compound courtyard in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, an isolated community between Djenne and Mopti on the banks of the Niger River. Relaxing with one of her children is Pama, and 11 year old Pai leans against the mud brick wall. Published in Material World, page 18. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River.
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  • In the distance is the mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. Published in Material World, page 20-21.
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  • The children and adults in the two households of the Natomo family squat in the shady courtyard of the main house and share their communal dinner of fish and smoked rice.   Published in Material World, page 18-19. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • Ramadan is the month for fasting, prayer, weddings, and other social activities. At the end of Ramadan, the entire village of Kouakourou, Mali, celebrated with a community dance. Published in Material World, page 17.
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  • On market day in Kouakourou village, Soumana Natomo buys and sells rice and other grains. After haggling with the female wholesalers, he returns with two sacks of rice to store in the house that he shares with his first wife, Pama Kondo. His second wife, Fatouma Toure, is two years younger than Pama and lives in a small one-bedroom apartment up an alley 250 feet away. Published in Material World, page 17. Mali.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. Architecture. Published in Material World, page 20-21.
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  • Soon after his bath, three-year-old Mamadou earns a reprimand as he climbs over his father, Soumana Natomo, who is trying to listen to a soccer game on the family radio. In the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Published in Material World, page 19. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River.
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  • The Abdulla family with all of their possessions pose for a portrait in front of their home in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Published in the book Material World, pages 236-237. Their house is 4,850 square foot one-story house (with a full basement) in a residential neighborhood.
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  • Children run home from school down a street lined with shops near the train station in the Ukita family's neighborhood in Kodaira City, outside Tokyo, Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 54. 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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  • Saturday night meal at the Ukita house, always accompanied by the fifth member of the family: the television. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages, 52-53. 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 moves books around the warehouse at his job at a distribution company. Like many other salary men, when Kazuo Ukita leaves home to catch the train for his job, he dons a navy blue suit for the hour-long commute, but changes into company work clothes once he arrives. During the commute, nearly all the men are dressed the same. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 51. 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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  • Sayo Ukita cooks breakfast while holding six-year-old Maya. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 50. 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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  • Sayo Ukita asks her daughter Mio what she would like for breakfast in the kitchen/dining room. Maya continues her morning wakeup at the table as their father Kazuo Ukita enjoys his morning cigarettes while watching television before leaving for work. The house is unheated. There is an electric heater under the table, covered by a quilted blanket. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 50. 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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  • Maya Ukita, in kindergarten, uses her time before school to skip rope and play with the family dog. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 55. 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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  • The Blue Lagoon, a surreal-looking spa created near the Svartsengi power plant, outside Iceland's capital city of Reykjavik, Iceland. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity ? and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is cool enough. Environment. Published in the book Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 168-169.
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  • Palacio de Matrimonio (Marriage registry) in Havana, Cuba. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 104-105.
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  • The Costa Family outside their home with all of their possessions, Havana, Cuba. Published in the book Material World, pages 106-107.
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  • A young Bhutanese girl sits on a sack of rice in Gaselo, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 6.
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  • Zekom sleeps, covered with houseflies that congregate in her parent's home during certain seasons of the year. Because the animals live on the ground floor of the house insects that breed in the animals' manure are constant nuisances. Shingkhey, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait page 76.
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  • Typical meal in Bhutan: red rice, chilies with potatoes, eggs, cheese. The Namgay household owns and rents land scattered in terraced strips through the hillsides near their home, each strip being devoted to one crop: wheat, rice, chilies, or potatoes. Shingkhey, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, Meals of the World page 177. From Peter Menzel's 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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  • At the Shingkhey village temple in Bhutan, a two-day ceremony 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. The drum in the center of the room beats with a deep, resonant, almost ringing sound. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 78.
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  • Three-year-old Chato Geltshin holds a branch full of berries brought by Uncle Kinley Dorji after a firewood-cutting expedition outside their hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 76.
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  • The wheat harvest in the small village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, now in full swing, is assigned to the women. They take two long, dowel-like sticks, pinch a fistful of wheat heads between them, and then pull up, snapping off the heads. For long-term storage, they cut the stalks down, bind them into sheaves, and store them in the attic. It is threshed little by little, as the family needs it. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 75.
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  • One of Sangay's morning duties is milking the cows. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 75. Sangay and her children and husband live in her parent's house; a traditional 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Sangay and her mother Nalim 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.
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke sits at his desk with his one-eyed Chihuahua, "Pepsi" tucked inside his shirt. Clarke enjoys telling visitors that this is his reenactment of the alien baby bursting forth from the chest of the astronaut in the sci-fi movie Alien. Published in Stern Magazine, 28 December 2000 issue, pages 76-77. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Woodside, T.J. Rodgers, president & CEO of Cypress Semi Conductors, at home in his new multi-million dollar Woodside home. Rodgers is President and C.E.O. of Cypress Semiconductor. Outspoken, right-wing, once called the "meanest boss in America" by a magazine. Rodgers is a fervent football fan of the Green Bay Packers?he has an autographed helmet from quarterback Bart Star and is seen here sitting on his couch with his dog, both wearing plastic "cheese heads"-- symbols of team loyalty. Rodgers suggested this photo saying that if it is published, he would probably be able to more easily buy season tickets to Green Bay Packers games (Wisconsin). Model Released (1999).
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  • In this photo-illustration, graduate student Josh Davis (underwater, in a wet-suit) helps the RoboPike breach out of the water in order to show how well the robotic fish might be able to swim one day. Photographed at the Department of Ocean Engineering Testing Tank Facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The idea for the image of the RoboPike breaching came from Professor Triantafyllou, whose dream it is for a robotic fish to swim well enough to be able to jump out of the water. Published in Smithsonian Magazine, August 2000 issue, page 55.
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  • Boontham Khuenkaew places an offering of cucumbers, red pork, bamboo shoot stew, shrimp-paste, and rice before the spirit house in his yard. Spirit houses are the abodes of the many spirits that Thais regard as integral parts of the land. Because the spirits have the power to cause trouble, Boontham periodically placates them by lighting candles and placing a good meal there. He puts a little rice on the ground, and adorns the house with flowers. Published in Material World page 85. 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.
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  • Farmers from Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, Thailand, cut rice stalks with a scythe. They will let it dry on the ground for several days, then bundle it into sheaves and tie it with stalks of stiff grass. Published in Material World, page 85. Ban Muang Wa is the home village of the family of Boontham and Buaphet Khuenkaew, who were profiled in the book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Downtown Johannesburg, South Africa at dusk. Architecture. Published in Material World page 25. Material World Project.
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  • Several times a week, Kazuo Ukita relaxes after work by stopping at a karaoke bar for a cigarette, a glass of sake, and a crack at the microphone. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait page 51. 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 (under the clock on the platform reading the newspaper) and other salary men and women wait for the train to take them to work in, and around, Tokyo, Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 51. 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's breakfast of coffee, cigarettes and television before work. There is a vitamin commercial on the TV. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, Televisions of the World page 36. Food. 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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  • Sangay Khandu uses bulls to plow the family's fields, readying them for rice planting which the women in the family will do. He moves gingerly around the notoriously bad-tempered beasts. The Namgay household farms land that they own and rented land as well to feed their large family. The land is scattered in terraced strips through the hillsides near their home, each plot devoted to one crop: wheat, rice, chilies, or potatoes. Shingkhey, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 74-75. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan.
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