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  • The Grund Valley and typical houses in Luxembourg city.
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  • The Grund Valley and typical houses in Luxembourg city.
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  • The Grund Valley and typical houses in Luxembourg city.
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  • Simon and Poppy Qampie (center in blue shirt, and red, respectively) pose with their children and extended family outside their home outside Johannesburg, in Southwest Township, South Africa. 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. Material World Project.
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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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  • Regina Mundi Catholic Church Service. Soweto, South Africa (Southwest Township is called Soweto, and is located outside Johannesburg, South Africa). Material World Project.
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  • Poppy Qampie passes by root vegetables and fruit for sale by the plate full near the office where she works as an assistant in downtown Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. 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. Material World Project.
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  • Poppy Qampie serves coffee to a fellow employee at Options in Training, a job-skills-teaching company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a longtime office assistant. 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. 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 Quampie children and a few of their friends play 'ring around the rosie? on a Sunday afternoon in front of their house in Soweto, South Africa.  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. Material World Project.
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  • Catherine Lemekwana with a mopane worm stew she prepared for her family using dried mopane worms, onions, garlic, salt, and curry in her home in Soweto, (South West Township), Johannesberg, South Africa. The harvest of mopane worms is a major economic event in Botswana where whole families move into the countryside and set up camp in order to collect the worms. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Near original to image that appeared 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 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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  • 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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  • Rain delay during the shooting of the Material World big picture in South Africa. The Qampie family had to cover all their possessions, which had already been moved outside, during the brief but fierce thunderstorm that swept across Soweto. 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. Material World Project.
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  • Funeral of a 29-year-old woman (a neighbor of the Qampies) in Soweto, South Africa. The funeral is in a tent set up on the street outside the family's home in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Simon Qampie brushes his teeth over a bucket in the bedroom of his family's house in Southwest Township (called Soweto), South Africa. They have running water in the kitchen only, and their toilet is an outhouse in their backyard. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Soweto, outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Soweto, South Africa. ANC (African National Congress) rally to commemorate the Sharpville massacre on its anniversary. On 21 March 1960 at least 180 black Africans were injured (there are claims that as many as 300 were injured) and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on approximately 300 demonstrators, who were protesting against the pass laws, at the township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging in the Transvaal. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signaled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. Material World Project.
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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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  • Regina Mundi Catholic Church Service, Soweto, South Africa. This church is the largest church in Soweto (South West Township, outside Johannesburg). Material World Project.
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  • Poppy Qampie irons Simon's shirt in the kitchen of their Soweto home before she leaves for work as her mother, Leah, looks on. 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. Material World Project.
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  • Getting to work is a scary daily business for Simon and Poppy Qampie, because the train that picks them up at the Phomolong station in Soweto, South Africa, is often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. 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. Material World Project.
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  • Children at the neighborhood daycare in Soweto, South Africa eat a breakfast, and a lunch, of hot pap porridge: corn meal mixed with water. 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. Material World Project.
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  • Portrait of Poppy Qampie's mother Leah Nosizwe, 64 in the kitchen of their Soweto home. She sleeps in the second small bedroom with the children.  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. 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. Near original to image that appeared 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 Qampie children and a few of their friends play 'ring around the rosie? on a Sunday afternoon in front of their house in Soweto, South Africa. 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. Child, Games. Material World Project.
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