There is no respect economically or socially for farmers in India, they struggle to survive with dwindling finances dolled out by local governmental agencies at its disposal for grass root level farmers across the drought prone areas of Rajasthan, Bihar, Chattisgarh and the green belts of Punjab. While 64% of India is an agricultural based [...]

I start by emphasizing that this work on the Marnoto salt extraction has a deep personal resonance since it portrays an activity that most likely my ancestors had. Having Marnoto as the surname of my family, all of my paternal side comes from Ilhavo, a village very close to Aveiro, having lived very closely since [...]

The Republic of Congo’s indigenous people, the country’s first inhabitants, are under threat.  The Baka, one of 15 ethnic groups, who traditionally have lived as hunters and gathers in the forest of central Africa, confront two grave dangers.  Their traditional habitat is under threat from commercial logging and when they do leave the forest, they [...]

A man operates an ancient manual handloom in his makeshift house/warehouse where he produces raw cloth for further use that is transported to bigger cities from his village in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. These men are paid a mere 2$s a day for being cheap daily wage labourers with which they are forced to feed [...]

Romania is aging and, at the same time, it’s Transylvania region experiences depopulation once again. This time in an even more devastating way than during the Saxon emigration in medieval times. It is estimated that 4 million Romanians (20% of the general population), especially those from the rural areas, have left the country to work [...]

Images in this series are examining the growing demands on, and changes in, the world’s production of food. These images are segments that I have photographed in 2008 and are all part a long term series for The New York Times.