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  • An elderly couple outside their wooden house in Horcon, Chile.
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  • Ceramic museum display with wooden spoons in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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  • Buaphet Khuenkaew, 35, 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. 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. Material World Project.
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  • Gers and hand built homes without water or plumbing sprang up on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as more and more of Mongolia's rural population moved to the capital city to find work. (Gers are circular tent-like dwellings with a collapsible wooden frame covered in animal skins, felt, and/or canvas. It serves as a home for shepherds and families alike. Traditionally, the structures fit the lifestyle of the largely nomadic Mongols. As the population became more stationary, the ger continued to be used as animal skins and wool felt were, and are, easier to procure while more western style building materials were expensive and scarce.) From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mongolia, 2001.
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  • Tshamulavhu Village wooden outhouse in rural Northern Transvaal (Venda), South Africa.
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  • Buaphet Khuenkaew washes her family's clothes on the ground near her house Thailand. Work. She and her family live in the 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. Material World Project.
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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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  • Santos' home outhouse on the Orinoco River in the Canyon de Tamatama, Venezuela.
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  • A dinner table is set in the desert at Burning Man in the late afternoon. Later that evening, 8 celebrants have dinner, and then burn the table. A group of San Francisco friends brought a table and chairs from a yard sale, had dinner in the desert near the Burning Man, then burned the dining set 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.
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  • A visiting monk reads Buddhist scripts during a house blessing of Namgay and Nalim's house. Shingkhey, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Outside the Shingkhey Buddhist Temple, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Hopperstad Stave Church near Vik, Norway. Built in 1140, Norway's second oldest stave church.
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  • Iron grave marker in cemetary at the Hopperstad Stave Church near Vik, Norway. Built in 1140, Norway's second oldest stave church.
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  • Hopperstad Stave Church near Vik, Norway. Built in 1140, Norway's second oldest stave church.
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  • Bryggen, the Wharf, in Bergen, Norway
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  • A dinner table is set on fire in the desert at Burning. Earlier that evening, 8 celebrants have dinner. 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..
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  • A dinner table is set in the desert at Burning Man in the late afternoon. Later that evening, 8 celebrants have dinner and then burn the table. 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.
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  • Albany covered bridge, New Hampshire in the fall.  New England, USA.
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  • Onions - near Gilroy, Central Valley, California. USA.
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  • Paoletti Winery cave, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Christianshavn Canal with red and green rowboats for rent. Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • Chomphet District across the Mekong River from Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; Colorado Indian family in front of their house.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; interior, Colorado Indian home.
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  • An extended family's simple rural home and yard in Horcon, Chile.
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  • A family eats a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • A family in front of their thatched roof home in a Mayan village, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • A guest relaxes in the winery guesthouse, a former 11th Century ermita (hermitage) at the Remelluri Winery.  Rioja, Spain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Harbor of Cherbourg, France, on the Atlantic coast.
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  • Winter dawn on the Vlatava River. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Phnom Penn, Cambodia. Central market. Fried crickets on the left, with small fried chickens on the right.
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  • "The Chess Player", a piece from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits..
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  • Bhutanese language writing class at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. The school is an hour's walk from Shingkhey Village. Nalim and Namgay's daughter Bangam attends this school. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Nalim and Namgay's family sleeping arrangements in their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Inside the Shingkhey Buddhist Temple, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Inside a makeshift tent outside the Shingkhey Buddhist Temple, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village. To a continuous background of chanting, the monks fill the valley with long, slow, deep notes from their horns. Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • English lesson in classroom at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. Nalim's daughter Bangam is in attendance (though out of frame). Children in Bangam's class range from 6 to 17 in age, some of who travel several hours to attend. The school is an hour walk from their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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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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  • Dancing outside the Shingkhey Temple. As happens in every Bhutanese village each year, a two-day ceremony is held to bless the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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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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  • Toilet on a Niger River boat that dumps into the river in Mali.
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  • Cemetary at the Hopperstad Stave Church near Vik, Norway. Built in 1140, Norway's second oldest stave church.
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  • Hopperstad Stave Church near Vik, Norway. Built in 1140, Norway's second oldest stave church.
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  • Hopperstad Stave Church near Vik, Norway. Built in 1140, Norway's second oldest stave church.
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  • Almaden Vineyards. Winemaster Klaus Mathes standing in Charles Lefranc cellar at Cienega Winery. Almaden Cienega Winery near Hollister, California,. The winery is located squarely across the San Andreas fault trace, and has been affected by fault creep. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Lew Price, 46, General Manager of Quixote Winery. Owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Napa Valley, CALIFORNIA.
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  • The Carl Doumani and Pam Hunter house on the Quixote Winery, owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Vineyard reservoir. Napa Valley, CALIFORNIA..
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  • The Carl Doumani and Pam Hunter house on the Quixote Winery, owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Vineyard reservoir. Napa Valley, CALIFORNIA.
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  • Quixote Winery, owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Napa Valley, CALIFORNIA.
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  • Palmaz Winery under construction, Napa Valley CA. Ragsdale construction company digging caves, 2002.
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  • Barrels for aging wine in the wine cave at Storybook Mountian Vineyards.
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  • Oak barrels for aging wine in the wine cave at Storybook Mountain Vineyards.
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  • Oak barrels for aging wine in the wine cave at Storybook Mountian Vineyards.
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  • Far Niente Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Work out at the beach at sunset in Naples, Florida, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Albany covered bridge, New Hampshire in the fall.  New England, USA.
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  • Freshly netted fish in a red plastic bucket in a blue boat on the beach at Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
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  • Artemio Martinez family getting ready for breakfast in their simple house near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • The dock at Ambergris Cay, Belize. Tourist riding a rented bicycle on the dock.  Central America.
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  • Apple harvest in Alfaro, Rioja, Spain.
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  • In preparation for the upcoming harvest, barrels are washed at R. Lopez Heredia winery, Haro. (Located in the railway district on the edge of Haro.) La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Wine aging cellars of the Granja Nuestra Senora de Remelluri, S.A. winery, in Labastida.  Rioja, Spain.
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  • Huge oak fermenting tanks at R. Lopez Heredia winery in Haro. (Located in the railway district on the edge of Haro.)  La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Racking wine at Bodegas Muga, in Haro, Rioja, Spain.  Cellar workers check clarity and color by candlelight.
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  • Decorated Bar restaurant in Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Winter dawn on the Vlatava River. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Late afternoon on the Niger River in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Bhutanese language writing class at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. The school is an hour's walk from Shingkhey Village. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • English lesson in classroom at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. Nalim's daughter Bangam is in attendance (although out of frame). Children in Bangam's class range from 6 to 17 in age. The school is an hour's walk from Shingkhey Village. Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • New house blessing in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Monks perform a ceremony that includes music and chanting. The whole village is treated to a special meal inside afterward. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Sangay, her children, and young sister Zekom (second from right) eat a snack of toasted grain. Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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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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  • Wine aging in oak barrels at the Robert Mondavi Winery, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Thousand Buddha Caves on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos..
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  • A Baptism at Clark's Harbor on Cape Sable Island. Nova Scotia, Canada.
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  • Nalim and Namgay's grandson, Geltshin, watches a wood worker cutting traditional shapes into a piece of wood for a new Bhutanese house. The carpenters, from another village, have set up camp and live at the work site while they do the woodwork for a new house in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth dot the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's neighbor is building a new house for his family directly in front of his old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. Villagers from each family come to help pound the dirt into wooden forms day after day, creating the walls of the earthen house. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's house is center, top. Their neighbor (to the right) is building a new house for his family directly in front of the old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Young altar boys accompanying hooded penitents in a procession during Holy week in Salamanca, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • An aerial of a procession leaving a neighborhood church during holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Sad Mary on Holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Hooded penitents in a night-time procession during Holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • "Costaleros" carrying an ornate float through the streets of Salamanca during Semana Santa (Holy Week) in the rain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Semana Santa (Holy Week).  Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Semana Santa (Holy Week).  Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
    SPA_070406_715_rwx.jpg
  • Semana Santa (Holy Week).  Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Semana Santa (Holy Week), Salamanca, Spain.  Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • A hooded penitent in a procession during Holy week in Madrid, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Hooded penitents in a procession during Holy week in Madrid, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Campanile wall of Santa Ines Mission, Solvang, California, USA. with cactus, roses, and wooden cross.
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  • Wooden statue of a Christian monk. Carmel Mission, Carmel, California, USA.
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  • A wooden bowl with parched corn on the dirt floor of the Ayme's cooking house in the village of Tingo, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Repairing small wooden boats on the beach of the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • On a school morning, breakfast at the Khuenkaew's house, Bang Muang Wa village, outside Chiang Mai, Thailand. 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. Material World Project.
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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. The family's dog hangs out with Visith. 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. Material World Project.
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  • Nine-year-old Visith Khuenkaew, (at the blackboard on the right), and his fellow third grade classmates work on math problems at school near their village of Ban Muang Wa, Thailand. 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. Material World Project.
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  • Jeeraporn Khuenkaew rides the family's most treasured possession?their motorcycle, on a Saturday along with some of her classmates who will join her at school for an agriculture class. Thailand. 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. Material World Project.
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  • This young boy with green heart-shaped sunglasses is reading Koranic verses on a wooden tablet under the watchful eye of the Imam of Kouakourou village in Mali as he teaches a Koranic lesson to students. Several of Soumana Natomo's children attend these classes, along with classes at what they call, "the modern school" taught in French, where they learn math and reading. Material World Project.
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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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  • Fresh vegetables prepared by Sayo Ukita. Green pepper, string beans, yellow squash, and daikon radish. Kodaira City, Japan. Material World Project. 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 prepares fresh vegetables for dinner. Kodaira City, Japan. Material World Project. 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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