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  • Bengali men ferrying loads of mud in a “food for work” project to dig a canal for monsoon flood drainage.  Even for moving the vast volumes of earth required, human labor in Bangladesh is much cheaper than mechanical power.  For a day’s work these men will earn just enough grain to feed their families, and they fight for any open position. Bangladesh, 1977
    BDL 07-01.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Komi reindeer herder Marie Terentéva, a nomad,  disassembles spruce poles that hold up her chum, while others work on other chums.
    RUe 070414-038.jpg
  • Norwegian coal miners work in a narrow seam deep underground in a mine on Spitsbergen Island, far north of the Arctic Circle.
    SV 2024.jpg
  • Sherpa women and a child work in their field in Namche Bazaar.
    S 0314.jpg
  • A mother and daughter gossip as they break bricks into gravel for road construction near their home in Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka Bangladesh.  For a long day of work the woman are paid about a pound of flour, barely enough to support their children.
    BDL 22-20.jpg
  • Villagers dig a canal by hand.  This is an internationally sponsored monsoon flood control project and workers are paid in grain by the amount of earth they move.  For a day’s work, these people will barely receive enough for their families to eat, but for many this is more than to be found anywhere else.  Manikganj, Bangladesh, 1977
    BDL 07-39.jpg
  • A polar geologist, working in sub-zero temperatures, drills dynamite holes in search of minerals on far north of the Arctic Circle on Spitsbergen Island.
    SV 2105.jpg
  • Working in sub-zero temperatures, geologists prepare blasting holes in search of minerals on Spitsbergen Island, half way between Norway and the North Pole.
    SV 2114.jpg
  • A welder works on machinery for a big Norwegian coal mine on Spitsbergen Island, far north of the Arctic Circle
    SV 2084.jpg
  • Taylor Capers works at Montana's Billings Logan International Airport as an intern (guiding planes, handling baggage, etc.) while studying to become a commercial pilot at Rocky Mountain College.
    MTe 071123-021.jpg
  • Working deep underground on a polar island, a Norwegian coal miner operates heavy machinery dragging coal out of seams where it has been blasted loose from the bedrock.
    SV 1908.jpg
  • A Sherpa women works in her field in Namche Bazaar.
    S 0305.jpg
  • A King Penguin strolls through decaying machinery at Grytviken, a recently abandoned whaling station on  South Georgia island, Antarctica.
    ATe 080228-372.jpg
  • Sherpa men load a yak  with juniper firewood they have gathered under Cho La Pass near Mount Everest in Nepal's Khumbu Region.
    S 0211.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
    RUe 070414-276.jpg
  • A man pushes a cart loaded with bamboo up a road in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0717.jpg
  • A sailboat carries cargo up a river near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0507.jpg
  • A photographer shoot pictures of American bison grazing by the road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
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  • A photographer shoot pictures of American bison grazing by the road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
    WYe 120620-281.jpg
  • A photographer shoot pictures of American bison grazing by the road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
    WYe 120620-269.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, watches – and sometimes directs – the herd movement as cows begin to calve.  The group’s objective is to keep them in one place during this crucial period, before mosquitoes force both people and caribou to move to higher ground in nearby mountains.
    RUe 070422-107.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
    RUe 070416-101.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
    RUe 070416-054.jpg
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses the tundra near Nizhnyaya  Pesha, in the Russian Arctic.
    RUe 070414-398.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herders grill reindeer meat on a stick over coals of an outdoor campfire.
    RUe 070414-097.jpg
  • As a Komi reindeer herding clan prepares to move, they strip a canvas cover off a chum, exposing the warm reindeer skin lining below.  Piece by piece, everything will be loaded onto reindeer-driven sleds and driven across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
    RUe 070414-025.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Vauchesky, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, bides time on a sled as he spends two weeks on the tundra, without a tent, watching the herd.
    RUe 070413-129.jpg
  • Sherpa women (Sherpanis) carry big loads for trekkers en route to Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Neudona, a Sherpa woman (Sherpani) carries loads for trekkers en route to Nepal's remote Hinku Valley.
    KB 2204.jpg
  • A Uygar boy rides naked and bareback to test ride horses at the Sunday Market in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China.
    CX 0389.jpg
  • Porters cross a suspension bridge over the Po Tsangpo River in eastern Tibet.
    TS 3044.jpg
  • Meredith Wiltsie after college students tossed dye colored ballons as they celebrate the Hindu holiday Holi in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
    BD 2808.jpg
  • Older women dig mud as they help dig a fish pond to help feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
    BD 1811.jpg
  • Homeless people dig a latrine for their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
    BD 1803.jpg
  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 1714.jpg
  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 1710.jpg
  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 1702.jpg
  • at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homless.  1977 image.
    BD 1617.jpg
  • Laborers wrestle with a pipe as they help dig a fish pond to help feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
    BD 1609.jpg
  • Laborers wrestle with a pipe as they help dig a fish pond to help feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
    BD 1519.jpg
  • Laborers wrestle with a pipe as they help dig a fish pond to help feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
    BD 1518.jpg
  • Laborers dig a flood control canal near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1113.jpg
  • Laborers dig a flood control canal near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1111.jpg
  • Laborers dig a flood control canal near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1108.jpg
  • A woman and her children flee oncoming plow oxen in a village near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1105.jpg
  • Men saw logs into firewood near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0815.jpg
  • Homeless village woman from Bangladesh make bamboo lath for a duck pond at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  They had been had left destitute and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and a  brutal 1971 war of independence
    BD 0808.jpg
  • Homeless village woman from Bangladesh make bamboo lath for a duck pond at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  They had been had left destitute and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and a  brutal 1971 war of independence
    BD 0807.jpg
  • Men push a cart loaded with bamboo up a road in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0715.jpg
  • A worker makes bamboo mats near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0703.jpg
  • A blacksmithand his sons wait for the next customer at  his outdoor stall near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0702.jpg
  • Human-powered transport is everywhere in the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 0518.jpg
  • Pedicab peddlers wait for a fare on the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 0517.jpg
  • A sailboat carries cargo up a river near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0505.jpg
  • Pedicab peddlers wait for a fare on the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 0419.jpg
  • An ox cart carryin lumber trots down a street in  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 0417.jpg
  • Human-powered transport is everywhere in the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 0414.jpg
  • Men push a cart topheavy with oil drums in  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 0412.jpg
  • Villagers use a cart to take home a cow they bought at a market in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 0410.jpg
  • Upper class college students settle up with a rickshaw driver in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977
    BD 0403.jpg
  • Human-powered transport is everywhere in the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 0402.jpg
  • Airplanes load and taxi at Sea-Tac International Airport, Seattle, Washington.
    WAe 070813-005.jpg
  • In Snopa village, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a man chops wood to heat his family's home.
    RUe 070425-059.jpg
  • With his dog aboard his sled, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  navigates between frozen tundra hummocks as he pushes the herd closer to areas where they want the cows to calve.
    RUe 070423-188.jpg
  • Risking a dousing north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  steers his sled straight through a meltwater bog on the tundra near Snopa village.
    RUe 070423-178.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, navigates his sled across a half-melted tundra bog as he steers the herd towards its next destination.
    RUe 070423-151.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, navigates his sled across a half-melted tundra bog as he steers the herd towards its next destination.
    RUe 070423-149.jpg
  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder watches a tractor pull a load of hay (for horses and cattle) towards nearby Snopa village.
    RUe 070423-010.jpg
  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic,  nomadic Komi reindeer herders watch a tractor pull a load of hay (for horses and cattle) towards nearby Snopa village.
    RUe 070423-008.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer harnessed to a sled graze on vast fields of lichen from the genus Cladonia, (which abounds in the foreground in this image and is sometimes mistakenly called reindeer “moss.”)
    RUe 070422-091.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer harnessed to a sled graze on vast fields of lichen from the genus Cladonia, (which abounds in the foreground in this image and is sometimes mistakenly called reindeer “moss.”)
    RUe 070422-088.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a few men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders live on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.
    RUe 070422-049.jpg
  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, charges with his team through an interface of tundra and taiga forests.
    RUe 070422-037.jpg
  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow on the arctic Russian tundra, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  charges with his team through a pool atop the permafrost.  Within weeks these pools will generate enough mosquitoes to drive both men and reindeer nearly insane, at which point they will migrate again to drier mountains further north.
    RUe 070422-035.jpg
  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow on the arctic Russian tundra, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  charges with his team through a pool atop the permafrost.  Within weeks these pools will generate enough mosquitoes to drive both men and reindeer nearly insane, at which point they will migrate again to drier mountains further north.
    RUe 070422-032.jpg
  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, charges with his team through an interface of tundra and taiga forests.
    RUe 070422-024.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of a nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan chop and chain saw wood to heat their chum (tepee).
    RUe 070420-261.jpg
  • Nomadic reindeer herder Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá drives his sled across the melting tundra while migrating with the last remaining Komi clan still to live on the land.  Notably, though, Fyodor is a Nenet, born to a different reindeer herding culture.
    RUe 070420-151.jpg
  • Nomadic reindeer herder Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá drives his sled across the tundra while migrating with the last remaining Komi clan still to live on the land.  Notably, though, Fyodor is a Nenet, born to a different reindeer herding culture.
    RUe 070420-138.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentev, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, saws wood to heat his family's chum (tepee). Watching him is his 77-year old mother, Marie.
    RUe 070418-161.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, fishes with primitive gear through a hole chopped in a frozen stream.
    RUe 070417-244.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, fishes with primitive gear through a hole chopped in a frozen stream.
    RUe 070417-242.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
    RUe 070417-234.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
    RUe 070417-230.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
    RUe 070417-200.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
    RUe 070417-176.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, surveys the vast, frozen tundra as his reindeer rest from wallowing through deep, wet spring snow.
    RUe 070417-124.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team across the tundra, where spring snow is soft enough to make travel difficult.
    RUe 070417-111.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team across the tundra, where spring snow is soft enough to make travel difficult.
    RUe 070417-064.jpg
  • After a day of sledding north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic group of Komi reindeer herders assembles its chums (tepees) around their pre-placed belongings.  Pictured here is 72-year old Marie Vaucheskaya, one of the clan's last remaining matriarchs.
    RUe 070416-303.jpg
  • After a day of sledding north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic group of Komi reindeer herders assembles its chums (tepees) around their pre-placed belongings.  By the time the chums are erected, fires will be going in the stoves and tea almost ready.
    RUe 070416-283.jpg
  • Because antlers are valuable for Chinese medicine, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder who lives north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, saws one off before the animal drops it naturally while grazing in the wild.  According to Arthum, this is not painful.
    RUe 070416-271.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
    RUe 070416-242.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
    RUe 070416-240.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
    RUe 070416-239.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
    RUe 070416-237.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
    RUe 070416-234.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
    RUe 070416-218.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a matriarch of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, prepares to drive a train of sleds across the tundra.
    RUe 070416-196.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drags a string of reluctant reindeer from a temporary pen to pull his mother’s sleds.
    RUe 070416-164.jpg
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