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  • Wounded boy with his father at the "Villa Hospital", a private home turned into a hospital in the north sector (Ali Mahdi controlled sector) of Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia where 30,000 died between November 1991 and March 1992.
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  • 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.
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  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway. Anders Ostensen's mother works in her garden behind the farmhouse.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • A man cultives his terrace rice fields near Ubud at Penatahan in Bali, Indonesia.
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  • A huge piece of a glacier calves off into the sea behind nesting Gentoo penguins on Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula.  Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks.
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  • Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula.  Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds that try to eat the eggs and chicks. The penguins swim to catch food for themselves and their chicks several times a day.
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  • Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula.  Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds that try to eat the eggs and chicks..
    ANT_110118_277_x.jpg
  • Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks at Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The penguins stay vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks..
    ANT_110118_092_x.jpg
  • Young market vendors tend their family's cabbage, tomatoes, and onions in the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan, a two-hour walk from Shingkhey village. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 40). This image is featured alongside the Namgay family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one’s body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore—a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi. There are other rivers in India, such as the Shipra which flows through the sacred city of Ujjain, that are considered sacred as well, but none holds the importance of the Ganges. Sometimes a small dummy representing the person will be burned at Jalasi.<br />
Only male family members are present and tend to the bodies at the cremation site as no show of emotion is allowed and also, they don’t want any of them jumping onto the fire, says one manager at the ghat. The body is carried to the water’s edge for a last dip, and then the main mourner prepares for his role in the ritual burning.<br />
The main mourner—usually the eldest son or closest male family member’s hair and facial hair is shorn, and his nails are cut. He wears a simple dhoti (traditional Indian male’s wraparound clothing). The chief mourner follows a prescribed ritual, which involves circling the body and showering it with ghee (clarified butter) and incense—like sandalwood—again often purchased from one of the local funereal accessories vendors. It takes about three hours for an average sized body to burn completely. If a family is poor and doesn’t have enough money to buy the right amount of wood to burn the body, then wood left over from other fires might be used. It takes about 350 kilos of wood to burn a body completely.<br />
Afterward, the workers dump ashes from the burned pyres and douse
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  • A single Chinstrap penguin living among Gentoos on Cuverville Island. Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds that try to eat the eggs and chicks..
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  • A single Chinstrap penguin living among Gentoos on Cuverville Island. Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds that try to eat the eggs and chicks.
    ANT_110118_336_x.jpg
  • A single Chinstrap penguin living among Gentoos on Cuverville Island. Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds that try to eat the eggs and chicks..
    ANT_110118_322_x.jpg
  • Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula.  Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds that try to eat the eggs and chicks.
    ANT_110118_301_x.jpg
  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat.
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  • Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula.  Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks. The penguins swim to catch food for themselves and their chicks several times a day..
    ANT_110118_381_x.jpg
  • Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula.  Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds that try to eat the eggs and chicks. The penguins swim to catch food for themselves and their chicks several times a day.
    ANT_110118_368_x.jpg
  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat. A man uses a long bamboo pole that once was part of the litter fashioned to carry a body to the cremation grounds at Harishchandra Ghat to flip the unburned legs and arms back into the fire. He uses the pole to smash the skulls open as well so that it burns more easily. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Villagers tend to a flock of sheep near a monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Two young Inca herders smile shyly at the camera before disappearing down the mountainside to tend their llamas and sheep in the high mountain passes above the city of Cuzco on the southern slopes of the Andes. (Man Eating Bugs page 150,151)
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  • Three women dressed in black abayas and shielded from the hot desert sun in wide-brimmed straw hats called nakhls, and even gloves, tend goats near Shibam, on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula's Rub al Khali, or Empty Quarter. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets) This section of the Arabian Desert holds the world's largest stretch of sand. Further north into Saudi Arabia, this desert contains some of the world's richest oil and gas fields. Though modestly dressed, the women aren't adverse to throwing stones to keep their goats close by?or to keep strangers with cameras away.
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  • A Bangladeshi sheepherder tending a Kuwaiti's flock of sheep at a camp in the desert near the Manageesh Oil Fields near the Saudi border in July of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Girls tending to alpacas and sheep grazing on the altiplano grasslands near Simiatug, Ecuador, at about 9,000 feet elevation (3,000 meters). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway.  Anders Ostensen, 48, tends some of sheep on his farm. Model-Released.
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  • Unloading surplus naval oranges at the Sunkist Orange Juice Factory, Lindsay, California, USA. Only a small percentage of naval oranges can be used in juice mix because it tends to separate. Other surplus naval oranges are used for cattle feed.
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  • A Gentoo penguin tends its eggs at Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The penguins stay vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks..
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, fixes one of her daughters' hair outside her adobe house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs or stove, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • An apprentice at  Joel Salatin's farm tends to pigs as they feed in an open area at the farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.  (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  •  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
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  • A woman tends to her goats before milking them in the town of Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem's wife, Munira, tends to the makloubeh at the stove at their extended family home in the village of Abu Dis, East Jerusalem.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight with her typical day's worth of food in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • While the Browns of Riverview, Australia are used to living with a nearly-empty refrigerator, they look forward to the days when it's full. Every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. John tends to the bags while Marge and Vanessa continue to load groceries for checkout. This trip, the Browns were also preparing for their upcoming photo shoot. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Oyuna Lhakamsuren tends to the shopping at the large covered municipal market in Ulaanbaatar for a weeks' worth of food for her family's upcoming photo shoot. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A Gentoo penguin tends its eggs at Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The penguins stay vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks..
    ANT_110118_095_x.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
  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight prepares dinner for her family in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
    ECU04_7738_xf1brw.jpg
  • Illinois farmer Gordon Stine tends to his soy bean field at his farm in St.Elmo, Illinois.   (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem's wife, Munira, tends to the makloubeh at the stove, while his daughter Mariam, 14, chops tomatoes at their extended family's home in the village of Abu Dis, East Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Their 8-year-old daughter, Maram, saunters through, escaping kitchen duties before the big weekend midday meal.
    PAL_081025_198_xxw.jpg
  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, walks to a livestock market  with her husband and children in  Simiatug, Ecuador to sell sheep. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age 5 feet, 3 inches and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.
    ECU04_beav7294_843_xx.jpg
  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, tends to her garden at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.   (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Like most of her neighbors, the widow farmer and lifelong resident of Ganjiagou Village,  in Sichuan Province, keeps chickens, grinds her own soy beans for soy milk, and has a garden that supplies much of her greens. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • In Dar es Salaam village, eastern Chad, the Mustapha family tends to their cattle. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Oyuna Lhakamsuren tends to the shopping at a black market for a weeks' worth of food for her family's upcoming photo shoot. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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