In 2001, Argentina suffered a massive economic collapse. In a struggle for survival, many workers tried to run their shuttered factories themselves, and against all odds, their efforts thrived. In becoming successful owners, these workers demonstrated a new model for economic development...

A series of photographs from New York State apple orchards. The workers who pick the apples come from Jamaica and Mexico. Each year they are selected for this work in their home countries and this job is desirable. The ones who are chosen have heavy hands with soft palms, so as to be less...

I took pictures of these women in Ghana who were working to make coca oil. I observed that all the labor was done by hand, and was very difficult to do. The women worked under quite difficult and dangerous conditions. The economy of Ghana is still very much agriculturally based, and is a very poor...

They're a lot in London, mainly in the City. Usually they're always all moving in the morning with the underground and over the streets, under brilliant glass buildings, like their shirts. They show their designer battle dress; they're living daytime moving from an office to another office...

Cockle Pickers was produced in Praia Grande, a small village in Brazil's Northeast, in the state of Bahia. The main economic activity in Praia Grande is cockle and crab picking. Nobody knows for certain how many people live there because many young men and women alike leave the island for...

'Marginal Trades' is my ongoing photographic project (2011- present), that documents the rapidly vanishing trades, businesses and professions and its practitioners in India. These trades that never changed, never updated themselves were being passed down for generations from father to son,...

The photographs are taken over the last three years in Sudan, Malawi, Tanzania, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, documenting programs supported by local and international organizations addressing women's issues and poverty. This work illuminates positive examples of female empowerment in a variety of...

SEAWEED FARMERS IN ZANZIBAR Growth vs. Stagnation. Joanna Lipper traveled to Zanzibar in the summer of 2009 to photograph women of diverse religious, ethnic, and economic backgrounds in both urban and rural settings. While in Zanzibar, Joanna Lipper visited Jambiani, a rural...

Shimla is a small hill town in Northern India. No vehicles are allowed on the slopes. Porters carry enormous packages from the bus and train stations at the bottom of the hill to the shops on the slopes.  In fact, many of the shops are at the top of the hill.  The porters earn ...

These photos document the sad fate of whole lives and professions that are ceasing to exist, due to no successors. It's happening now with shoemakers, barbers, embroiderers, tailors and more. So many stories, so much history. We need to preserve the memory. This project is an old dream, a journey into the ...

This is a series of portraits of men and women who produce food or work in the food industry in the United States. Some come from Jamaica, some from Mexico and some from Pennsylvania. The pictures were taken in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York City and New York State.

Portugal is the largest cork exporter in the world. Cork extraction is one of the stages of a long process that begins 30 years earlier when cork oak is either planted or born spontaneously. One of the most interesting peculiarities of the cork oak is its outer shell -- cork -- whose main role is to ...

Images that transport us to other time. The olive harvest has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Machines began to replace people and began changing work modes. The way that this tradition was alive was passing it from generation to generation, parents taught their children year...

September 2012 - Portugal (Tras os Montes ) This series was made in a community oven more than 200 years old. Although in poor condition, the oven is used from time to time for special occasions. I grew up in this environment, involved by it and now I see it all disappear. I intend to...

On the outskirts of Cairo in the middle of Manshiet Nasr neighborhood is located Mokattam settlement known as "Garbage City." It is inhabited by Zabbaleen, a community of about 45,000 Coptic Christians living for decades to recycle waste generated by the Egyptian capital: plastic, aluminum, paper...

On April 28th 2012 a centuries-old way of life and work will officially come to an end. This is the story of the last of the Billingsgate Fish Market porters.   

At the foothills of the Himalayas, in West Bengal, India, lies the city of Darjeeling. It's elevation of 6,710 ft. (2,050 m.) above sea level, combined with it's cool, moist climate, rich soil and generous amounts of rainfall come together to create perfect conditions for growing and ...

Stonington is the largest lobster port in Maine. With roughly 1100 residents and about 350 boats operating, 85% of the economy is based on lobster fishing. A high population of lobster is driving down the price of off the boat lobster. A pound of lobster sold for an average of $4.63 9 years...

The folk art of the pottery in Bangladesh tell stories of village life, of happiness, of family life and the life of the hard working people of Bangladesh. As for Dhamrai, it is the holy grail for the ancient "almost lost" art of pottery...

This is the place: a salvage company in Cambodia that Nguyen searched for a long time. One day in 2006 he left his homeland of Vietnam, heading to the salvage company to materialize his dream to live with dignity and bring a smile to his family. But the fate he found in the salvage company has not...

'Life in a Garbage Dump' is a photo story of those people who live and work with garbage. People here collect rubbish for resale. At the end of the day , they earn TK 100 to 200 (USD 1-2) . The Matuail Dump yard is one of the three waste sites for Dhaka (Capital of Bangladesh) ...

The Spanish arrived in El Choc�, in the Colombian Pacific, successfully searching gold. African slaves they brought to work the mines were the ancestors of today's Afro-Colombian population there. Commercial mining ended in the 1960s, but recently high prices for gold and limited proven ...