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  • Sunset of Hope: A young girl facing an inevitably dark life of poverty and disappointment, stands alone gazing upon the beauty of a tropical sunset, as distant and transient as hope, Tanjung Pedau Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Sunset of Hope
  • Manual Mining: Men manually mine a muddy hillside for White Gold, near to Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Manual Mining
  • Clean Water  (B&W): A lady risks the garbage and filth to use a manual water pump and fill a container with water, Mymensingh Bangladesh.
    Clean Water (B&W)
  • Clean Water: A lady risks the garbage and filth to use a manual water pump and fill a container with water, Mymensingh Bangladesh.
    Clean Water
  • Digging a Hole: Promises of white gold compels this miner to daily risk his life digging dangerous, unsupported shafts, often to a depth of 8 meters with no safety precautions, near Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Digging a Hole
  • Morning Reflection: A regular customer at a morning coffee shop pauses from smoking in a reflective moment, Shwebo Myanmar.
    Morning Reflection
  • Market Madness: A most enthusiastic all male crowd gleefully struggles to get into the photograph, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Market Madness
  • Work Break: A young, mud covered man takes a break from working in a water filled hole, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Work Break
  • Home Street Home (B&W): A homeless man finds a moment’s sleep, using his flip flops as a pillow, on the stairs of a locked doorway, Wat Ounalom, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Home Street Home (B&W)
  • The Burden of Reality (B&W): A man continues his solitary, life-long and unchallenged station in life; with the unrelenting burden of fate, he finds himself wearing a wooden yoke hauling two pails of water down a nearly deserted market street, Nyaung U Myanmar.
    The Burden of Reality (B&W)
  • Shy Friends: Three young barefooted boys stop from playing in a farm yard just long enough to stand and pose, all the while holding hands, Siliguri India.
    Shy Friends
  • Mid-day Nap: A man laughs heartily as his friends and co-workers take a well deserved nap, on their bicycle driven carts, in the middle of a busy street in downtown, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Mid-day Nap
  • Cold Comfort for Failure (B&W): A man takes shelter from the rain, on the steps of a furniture store Vancouver British Columbia Canada.
    Cold Comfort for Failure (B&W)
  • Morning Market: Women, with their meager offerings before them, stand in the morning market’s sunlight, Muang Sing Laos.
    Morning Market
  • Friends Through the Worst of Times: Three young friends share a moment of glee in amongst the garbage on the riverside loading dock shores, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Friends Through the Worst of Times
  • Breakfast in Myanmar: A woman bends over a hot fire preparing yet another meal at the morning market, Myinkaba Myanmar.
    Breakfast in Myanmar
  • Roadside Prayer: A Muslim beggar deep in prayer, crouching roadside with his walking stick carefully placed before him, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Roadside Prayer
  • Kalaw Bundle:  A woman deftly negotiates the morning market, using a head band to carry both her filled woven basket and an over-sized bundle that rests on top, Kalaw Myanmar.
    Kalaw Bundle
  • Proudly Corporate?: In the early morning market, a woman tribesman is draped in a cloth that proudly displays the modern corporate signage for "Coca Cola" across her back, Louang Namtha Laos.
    Proudly Corporate?
  • Out to Dry: Boats ply the river in front of a laundry, where rows of clothes are hung to dry on an industrial scale, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Out to Dry
  • Digging a Hole, (B&W): Promises of white gold compels this miner to dig dangerous, vertical, unsupported shafts, often to a depth of 8 meters with only a hammer and a piece of rebar, near Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.<br />
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Poor men with no alternative opportunities of employment become miners and risk their lives daily, as they exhibit little skill and no safety precautions. The threat of danger was confirmed in this same hill side when two weeks prior a similar shaft collapsed and two lives were lost.
    Digging a Hole, (B&W)
  • Morning Smoke: A lady laughs with a friend as she smokes from one of the largest hand rolled cigarettes I have ever seen, in the morning market, Shwebo Myanmar.
    Morning Smoke
  • Elderly and Alone (B&W):  An elderly man sits, in quiet reflection in a vacated part of the local market, with two chickens; the sum total of his life’s’ toil, Srimangal Bangladesh.
    Elderly and Alone (B&W)
  • The Burden of Reality: A man continues his solitary, life-long and unchallenged station in life;  with the unrelenting burden of fate he finds himself at another morning market wearing a wooden yoke, hauling two yellow pails of water down a nearly deserted street, Nyaung U Myanmar.
    The Burden of Reality
  • Alone & Despondent: A solitary and elderly woman hangs her head despondently, Kolkata (Calcutta )India.
    Alone & Despondent
  • Beasts of Burden: From inside a wooden transport boat, a man strains mightily hoisting a basket of wet sand atop of a porters head,  Brahmaputra  River, Mymensingh Bangladesh.
    Beasts of Burden
  • A man is dressed for what he experiences as a cold morning (of some 30 plus degrees centigrade) and takes a morning tea in his shanty town, riverside of Dhaka Bangladesh..
    Morning Tea
  • Third Class: Men stake out their spots for the long trip atop a fully loaded lorry, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Third Class
  • Market Breakfast: Sitting amongst her baskets of grain in the morning market, a woman takes the time to peel an orange and reflect, Mandalay Myanmar.
    Market Breakfast
  • Circular Work: A man splattered in mud, looks up from digging his circular, water filled hole, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Circular Work
  • Up A Tree: After a Buddhist celebration in Wat Nabo, a young monk climbs up a palm tree to cut down decorations, a machete in hand, , Tha Khek Laos.
    Up A Tree
  • Water Carrier: A woman in traditional dress ventures out onto the street with a metal vase filled with water, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Water Carrier
  • Mother & Child: A kind woman in traditional dress holds her child, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Mother & Child
  • Rickshaw Exhaustion:  An exhausted rickshaw driver takes a well deserved nap, away from the intense mid day sun, in a back alley in New Delhi India.
    Rickshaw Exhaustion
  • Sleep on the Street: A young man sleeps amongst the filth of the street, with only the thinnest of mats between himself and the concrete sidewalk, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Sleep on the Street
  • Elderly and Alone: An elderly man sits in quiet reflection in a vacated part of the local market, with two chickens; the sum total of his life’s’ toil, Srimangal Bangladesh.
    Elderly and Alone
  • Foraging: A cow searches a garbage dump for sustenance, Lucknow India.
    Foraging
  • Poultry Market: A man kneels in the local poultry market with his caged chickens, Srimangal Bangladesh.
    Poultry Market
  • Senior's Resignation (B&W): A crippled senior citizen passes another lonely day selling small packets of candy to supplement his inadequate pension, Havana Cuba.
    Senior's Resignation (B&W)
  • Senior's Resignation:  A crippled senior citizen passes another lonely day selling small packets of candy to supplement his inadequate pension, Havana Cuba.
    Senior's Resignation
  • Circular Life: An unfortunate cow, tied to the stake, takes a moment to rise from the center of his circular life, Kushinagar India.
    Circular Life
  • Cold Comfort for Failure: A man takes shelter from the rain, on the steps of a furniture store Vancouver British Columbia Canada.
    Cold Comfort for Failure
  • Long Road (B&W):  A mother and her young, dirty family slowly traverse a hot dirt road home loaded down with water, Muang Sing Laos.
    Long Road (B&W)
  • Road Crew Smile: A worker takes a moment from the chore of road construction, glancing up into the camera she can't help but smile at her new found celebrity, New Bagan Myanmar.
    Road Crew Smile
  • Long Road:  A mother and her young, dirty family slowly traverse a hot dirt road home loaded down with water, Muang Sing Laos.<br />
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    Long Road
  • Work: Within a dark and gloomy warehouse, a young man in takes a well-earned break from his endless chore of filing bags with rubble, Srinagar India.
    Prison or Work
  • Land of Hunger: In such a poor country with so many destitute and hungry, it is strange to see these two young men walk amongst the vast quantities of discarded and rotting food on the riverside shores, Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Land of Hunger
  • Life’s Burden: A woman in a brightly coloured head scarf leans forward as she bears the weight of her wares, borne by a wooden yoke, Muang Sing morning market, Laos.
    Life’s Burden
  • Warily Watching:  A solitary man watches the scenes of the street with a wariness born of daily experience, Assi Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Warily Watching
  • Alms: A Buddhist monk’s silver begging bowl is covered by a green woven cover and stands unattended on an intricate bamboo pedestal, Wat Thung Pong, Pai Thailand.
    Alms
  • Nap Time: Down on the docks, a lady takes a morning nap in her hammock underneath a worn metal table, Yangon Myanmar.
    Nap Time
  • Rest and Dread: A solitary man taking a smoke break squats and gazes down his dangerous, self made mining shaft, where his daily risks his life in search of white gold, near Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Rest and Dread
  • Aka Harvest: In this ethnically distinct Aka village, the people are protected from evil spirits with warning symbols that guard the village’s entrance and the people eke out a subsistence living as shown by this Aka woman in traditional dress spreading out onions to dry in the sun, near to Muang Sing Laos.
    Aka Harvest
  • Indian Siesta: A tired labourer takes a well deserved mid day siesta on the cart he has just loaded, Kolkata (Calcutta) India.
    Indian Siesta
  • Standing Out In A Crowd: A full bearded Sadhu, with his face and arms painted red white and yellow, sits conspicuously awaiting the Hindu Aarti ceremony to start, riverside in Varanasi India.
    Standing Out In A Crowd
  • Men mine a muddy hillside by the most basic of means for White Gold, near to Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Modern Mining
  • Trail of Misery: A trail of water leads one to a poor man laying face down on the concrete, Kolkata (Calcutta )India.
    Trail of Misery
  • Good Luck: An elderly woman finds shade and a place to sell her vegetables in a potentially dangerous location underneath a large transport truck, in between two mud flaps that say “Good Luck”, Kolkata (Calcutta) India.
    Good Luck
  • Despondent: An elderly despondent woman squats as if in prayer, in front of her ramshackle hut, Muang Sing Lao.
    Despondent
  • Three's Company: Three cyclo (tricycle rickshaws) drivers taking a mid day rest from the heat, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    Three's Company
  • Salty Selfie: Salt workers pause for a photographic moment inside their warehouse, near Kampot Cambodia.
    Salty Selfie
  • Leery in White: A leery Sadhu, covered head to toe in white, takes a moments pause from his reading to scrutinize the foreign intruder, Varanasi India.
    Leery in White
  • Hindu Devotee: A mature Sadhu, with a lovely full white beard and a face painted yellow, makes his way riverside, Varanasi India.
    Hindu Devotee
  • Two Amigos: Two older men of the street, each with varied faces that reflect the difficulty of their chosen life, pause for a moment for a portrait, Havana Cuba.
    Two Amigos
  • Train Waiting: A middle aged couple spend the hours waiting for a train sleeping on a sidewalk in Santiago de Cuba - Cuba.
    Train Waiting
  • Home Street Home: A homeless man finds a moment’s sleep, using his flip flops as a pillow, on the stairs of a locked doorway, Wat Ounalom, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Home Street Home
  • Working in Circles:  A young man covered in mud, takes a break from toiling in the bottom of a deep, surprisingly circular and water filled hole, in Dhaka Bangladesh.
    Working in Circles
  • Alms: An aged and unsuccessful beggar seeks alms from the passing masses, Varanasi India.
    Alms
  • Ferrari at Rest: A man wearing a Ferrari shirt rests in the early morning light, sitting precariously on the wooden poles of his rickshaw, Calcutta (Kolkata) India.
    Ferrari at Rest
  • Distain of the Street: Street life is often a culmination of economic and personal misfortune; captured in the silhouette of a man whose face is filled with distain, Havana Cuba.
    Distain of the Street
  • Benevolent Poverty: Thoughtful Poverty: Out from a full head of ruffled hair, emerges the kind, thoughtful expression of a poor man,  Mymensingh Bangladesh.
    Benevolent Poverty