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  • A landmine victim recovering in a hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war March 1992.
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  • Teenaged land mine victim recovering in a hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland?the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. March 1992.
    SOM_40_xs.jpg
  • Paul Jefferson, a blind amputee in army hospital in England was wounded by a land mine in Kuwait. Paul Jefferson, who had overseen the de-mining of the Falklands. He had also written a manual on defusing Russian land mines. But he stepped on one and lost a leg, his eyes, and parts of his hands. I visited him in a veterans' hospital for the blind in England a few months later and made a short video on his rehabilitation and recollections of the accident. In this photo he is being taught to type with a computer program that sounds out the letters as he types them.
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  • A young Somalian girl recovering the hospital after losing her leg to a landmine in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, an unrecognized breakaway Republic of Somalia. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. March 1992.
    SOM_41_xs.jpg
  • A 50 year old Somalian woman being examined in Hargeisa, Somaliland, by Dr. Chris Giannou of the International Committee of the Red Cross, after losing her leg to a landmine while herding her cattle. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
    SOM_38_xs.jpg
  • A 50 year old Somalian woman waiting to be fitted for a prosthesis in Hargeisa, Somaliland after losing her leg to a landmine while herding her cattle. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
    SOM_37_xs.jpg
  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two-day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice was photographed by the schoolyard fence near where he was struck by lightning. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
    USA_SCI_LIG_48_xs.jpg
  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two-day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice at home with the equipment he was wearing when hit. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
    USA_SCI_LIG_47_xs.jpg
  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice at home with the equipment he was wearing when hit. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
    USA_SCI_LIG_46_xs.jpg
  • Paul Jefferson, a blind amputee in army hospital in England was wounded by a land mine in Kuwait. Paul Jefferson, who had overseen the de-mining of the Falklands. He had also written a manual on defusing Russian land mines. But he stepped on one and lost a leg, his eyes, and parts of his hands. Photographer Peter Menzel visited him in a veterans' hospital for the blind in England a few months later and made a short video on his rehabilitation and recollections of the accident. In this photo he is being taught to type with a computer program that sounds out the letters as he types them.
    KUW_074_xs.jpg
  • A 50 year old Somalian woman waiting to be fitted for a prosthesis in Hargeisa, Somaliland after losing her leg to a landmine while herding her cattle. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
    SOM_39_xs.jpg
  • Living in earthquake rubble, near Plaza Garibaldi in Mexico City, Mexico.
    MEX_EQ_05_xs.jpg
  • (1992) Forensic use of DNA fingerprints. A scientist taking a sample from a bloodstained pair of jeans. DNA from the sample is then sequenced, providing a DNA fingerprint (such as those seen at the edges of the frame). This may then be compared with DNA from the victim and any suspect. In some cases, this may be used in conjunction with other evidence to positively link a suspect with both the victim and the scene of a crime. Modern amplification techniques allow DNA sequences to be taken from extremely small samples, such as a few spots of blood or a few hair follicles. (Scientist here is J. Bark). MODEL RELEASED
    GBR_SCI_DNA_02_xs.jpg
  • Hypothermia Research: Research on exercise in cold water, part of an assessment of exercise regimes for victims of multiple sclerosis (MS). Here, at the University of Minnesota Hypothermia laboratory in Duluth, a volunteer rides an exercise bicycle while immersed in cold water at a temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit. A variety of probes measure his vital functions, skin & core body temperatures. The tube connected to his mouth delivers a monitored air supply. People afflicted by MS need regular exercise, but the rise in body temperature this provokes often causes uncontrollable shaking. Exercise in cold water helps counter this effect. MODEL RELEASED [1988]  .Hypothermia is a medical condition in which the victim's core body temperature has dropped to significantly below normal and normal metabolism begins to be impaired. This begins to occur when the core temperature drops below 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit). If body temperature falls below 32 °C (90 °F), the condition can become critical and eventually fatal. Body temperatures below 27 °C (80 °F) are almost uniformly fatal, though body temperatures as low as 14 °C (57.5 °F) have been known to be survivable.  [[http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/Hypothermia]]
    USA_SCI_HYP_01_xs.jpg
  • Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
    USA_BMAN_44_xs.jpg
  • Art installation at Burning Man. Black Rock Desert, Nevada: Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
    USA_BMAN_40_xs.jpg
  • An overturned truck from an automobile accident, and a victim on the roadside of Highway 29, American Canyon, California. The accident took place in front of an auto wrecking yard. USA.
    USA_AUTO_02_xs.jpg
  • Passerbys attending to the wounds of a car accident victim on the roadside of Highway 121, Napa County, California. USA
    USA_AUTO_01_xs.jpg
  • Doctors working on an injured man, a gunshot victim, at Keysany Hospital, ICRC, in Mogadishu, the war torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A teenage shelling victim in a "Villa Hospital", a private home turned into a hospital in the north sector (Ali Mahdi controlled sector), in Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia where 30,000 died between November 1991 and March 1992. March 1992.
    SOM_24_xs.jpg
  • Doctors working on an injured man, a gunshot victim, at Keysany Hospital, ICRC, in Mogadishu, the war torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
    SOM_26_xs.jpg
  • A young shelling victim in a "Villa Hospital", a private home turned into a hospital in the north sector (Ali Mahdi controlled sector), in Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia where 30,000 died between November 1991 and March 1992. March 1992.
    SOM_22_xs.jpg
  • (1992) The Crime Scene Unit responding to a drug shooting in the Bronx. The victim was shot 4 times and then died. In the aftermath, detective Hank Fieldsa dusts for fingerprints. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
    USA_SCI_DNA_08_xs.jpg
  • (1992) Crime Scene Unit responding to a body found in a closet in the Bronx. The suspect confessed at the 44th precinct while we were at the crime scene. He smoked 10 vials of crack and killed his girlfriend in his father's apartment bedroom. He mopped up the blood but left pieces of the mop on the floor, and bloody sheets in a bucket in the bathtub. The detectives took samples of the mop, bed sheets and blood on the floor. They bagged the hands of the victim for evidence and analysis at the morgue. There was a pit bull dog found in the other closet. DNA Fingerprinting..
    USA_SCI_DNA_05_xs.jpg
  • (1992) A Crime Scene Unit responds to the dispatcher's call of a body found in a closet in the Bronx. The suspect confessed at the 44th precinct while detectives were gathering evidence at the crime scene. He had smoked ten vials of crack cocaine and killed his girlfriend in his father's apartment bedroom, then mopped up the blood, but left pieces of the mop on the floor and bloody sheets in a bucket in the bathtub. The detectives took samples of the mop, bed sheets and blood on the floor. They bagged the hands of the victim for analysis at the morgue. Bronx, NYC. DNA Fingerprinting..
    USA_SCI_DNA_01_xs.jpg
  • (1992) At the Home Office of the Forensic Science Service in Aldermaston, England, John Bark and Linda Nelson discuss the results of a DNA profile of blood and semen samples taken from a pair of pants. The blood will be removed, and then analyzed using DNA fingerprinting techniques. This will enable the scientist to determine whether the blood belonged to the victim or the assailant. Hanging up in the foreground are various DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) autoradiograms from other DNA fingerprinting studies. DNA consists of two sugar- phosphate backbones, arranged in a double helix, linked by nucleotide bases. There are 4 types of base; adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). Sequences of these bases make up genes, which encode an organism's genetic information. The bands (black) on the autoradiogram show the sequence of bases in a sample of DNA. MODEL RELEASED
    GBR_SCI_DNA_01_xs.jpg
  • In a simulated bedroom complete with stuffed animals, tossed bedclothes, and a sleeping dummy victim, Robin R. Murphy of the University of South Florida keeps tabs on her marsupial robot; or, rather, robots. Developed to help search-and-rescue teams, the robots will work as a team. The larger "mother" is designed to roll into a disaster site. When it can go no farther, several "daughter" robots will emerge, marsupial fashion, from a cavity in its chest. The daughter robots will crawl on highly mobile tracks to look for survivors, feeding the mother robot images of what they see. Although the project is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Murphy's budget is hardly overwhelming. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 154-155.
    USA_rs_460_qxxs.jpg
  • Ringed by six-foot sheets of bullet-proof glass and a sellout crowd, radio-controlled gladiators battle to the mechanical death. At Robot Wars, a two-day-long competition in San Francisco, CA the crowd roars to the near-constant shriek of metal, the crash of flying parts, and the thunderous beat of techno music. After a series of one-on-one matches, losers and winners alike duke it out in a final death-match called a Melee. In this Melee, the 13-foot Snake curls to use its drill-bit tail on its hapless victim, a tracked vehicle; meanwhile, the simple yet primitively powerful Frenzy hammers the rolling, wedge-shaped Tazbot. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 202-203.
    USA_rs_395_qxxs.jpg
  • U.S. Army officer Curtis Newcomer eats chili mac, his favorite MRE, at lunch time at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20; 6'5" and 195 pounds. His weapon is fitted with a laser that interacts with receivers worn by all of the soldiers and actors in the training exercise, regardless of duty, rank, or location in the training theater. At left: After the second of three mock battles of the day, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_080915_281_xxw.jpg
  •  Katherine Navas, a high school student  (behind counter in shop on right), tends to a customer behind the counter of her stepfather's Internet and copy shop in Caracus, Venezuela. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Bars on all the windows, doors, and balconies signal that security is a major concern in this neighborhood. Caracas was the murder capital of the world in 2008; 50 murders in one weekend is not unheard of. Local gangs are viciously territorial and ruthless in their victimization of the hardworking, law-abiding majority. Noemi Hurtado, an 83-year-old who has lived a stone's throw from Katherine's house for the past 51 years, has never once crossed into the barrio of La Silsa. ?It's too dangerous,? she says. ?I would never go there.? When Noemi moved to western Caracas, the La Silsa barrio didn't yet exist; the hills surrounding the valley were forested and, she remembers, there were waterfalls
    VEN_071102_374_xxw.jpg
  • U.S. Army officer Curtis Newcomer eats chili mac, his favorite MRE, at lunch time at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20; 6'5" and 195 pounds. His weapon is fitted with a laser that interacts with receivers worn by all of the soldiers and actors in the training exercise, regardless of duty, rank, or location in the training theater. At left: After the second of three mock battles of the day, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_080915_275_xxw.jpg
  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures in the Mojave Desert, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    USA_080915_269_xxw.jpg
  • When a terrifying earthquake leveled part of Turkey in the fall of 1999, rescuers had trouble pulling victims from the rubble because it was too risky to crawl through the unstable ruins. As a result, some people died before they could be rescued. Shigeo Hirose of the Tokyo Technical Institute thinks he may have the solution: Blue Dragon (Souryu in Japanese). A light, triple-jointed robot with a digital camera in its nose, Blue Dragon could crawl through an earthquake-damaged building in search of survivors. Wriggling over a pile of shattered concrete on a construction site at the institute's campus, the battery-operated robot fell over several times, but righted itself quickly and continued slithering through the pile of stone. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 148-149.
    Japan_JAP_rs_50_qxxs.jpg
  • Jars of pickled vegetables for sale at the Ciglane outdoor "green" market in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Signs of the four-year siege of Sarajevo are still obvious today. Although food stalls have returned to the Ciglane market, parts of the Olympic park behind it have become a burial ground for siege victims. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
    BOS01_0020_xf1bs.jpg
  • Signs of the four-year siege of Sarajevo are still obvious today. Although food stalls have returned to the Ciglane market, parts of the Olympic park behind it have become a burial ground for siege victims. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 49). This image is featured alongside the Dudo family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
    BOS01_0003_xxf1s.jpg
  • The shoes of landmine victims in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Nearby, a de-mining crew found a mass grave where 200 locals were executed by the Siad Barre governmental troops in 1988. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war March 1992.
    SOM_50_xs.jpg
  • Hypothermia Research: Research on exercise in cold water, part of an assessment of exercise regimes for victims of multiple sclerosis (MS). Here, at the University of Minnesota Hypothermia laboratory in Duluth, a volunteer rides an exercise bicycle while immersed in cold water at a temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit. A variety of probes measure his vital functions, skin & core body temperatures. The tube connected to his mouth delivers a monitored air supply. People afflicted by MS need regular exercise, but the rise in body temperature this provokes often causes uncontrollable shaking. Exercise in cold water helps counter this effect. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
    USA_SCI_HYP_02_xs.jpg
  • (1992) The weekly march of Las Madres y las Abuelas de los Desparacidos (the mothers and grandmothers of the disappeared) in front of the Casa Rosada, the residence of the President of Argentina in Buenos Aires.  There was an estimated crowd of 700 people.  These groups demonstrated weekly for many years before the government admitted responsibility for thousands of political "disappearances" (murders). DNA fingerprinting has identified some of the victims, and a number of the families have been re-united.
    ARG_SCI_DNA_05_xs.jpg
  • Katherine Navas, a high school student  (behind counter in shop on right), tends to a customer behind the counter of her stepfather's Internet and copy shop in Caracus, Venezuela. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Bars on all the windows, doors, and balconies signal that security is a major concern in this neighborhood. Caracas was the murder capital of the world in 2008; 50 murders in one weekend is not unheard of. Local gangs are viciously territorial and ruthless in their victimization of the hardworking, law-abiding majority. Noemi Hurtado, an 83-year-old who has lived a stone's throw from Katherine's house for the past 51 years, has never once crossed into the barrio of La Silsa. "It's too dangerous," she says. "I would never go there." When Noemi moved to western Caracas, the La Silsa barrio didn't yet exist; the hills surrounding the valley were forested and, she remembers, there were waterfalls.
    VEN_071102_076_xw.jpg
  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    USA_080915_076_xw.jpg
  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    USA_080915_033_xw.jpg
  • Fruits and vegetables for sale at the outdoor "green" Ciglane market in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Signs of the four-year siege of Sarajevo are still obvious today. Although food stalls have returned to the Ciglane market, parts of the Olympic park behind it have become a burial ground for siege victims. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
    BOS01_0026_xf1bs.jpg
  • Signs of the four-year siege of Sarajevo are still obvious today. Although food stalls have returned to the Ciglane market parts of the Olympic park behind it have become a burial ground for siege victims. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 49). This image is featured alongside the Dudo family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
    BOS01_0004_xxf1s.jpg

Peter Menzel Photography

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