Akha hill tribe women picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Tongan women in pounding grain on the shore of Lake Kariba, at sunset, Zambia, Africa

Akha hill tribe woman picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Akha hill tribe women picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Portrait of Luiz, The Mines of Cerro Rico, Potosi, Southern Altiplano, Bolivia

Portrait of Vicente, The Mines of Cerro Rico, Potosi, Southern Altiplano, Bolivia

Man patching a carpet, Sultanahmet historic district, Istanbul, Turkey

Nepali Porter carrying a big load from Kinja up to Lamjura La (3530m), near Khincha, Solukhumbu District, Sagarmatha, Nepal

Smiling Indian tea picker, tea plantation, near Munnar, Kerala, South India, India

Flowers are sold from shikaras on Dal Lake, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Woman receiving Ayurvedic massage from staff, Ayurvedic Health Resort Somatheeram, Chowara, Malabar Coast, South India, India

Woman producing fuel from cow dung, drying in the sun at Sangam, Allahabad, India

Harvesting grapes near Oberloiben, Wachau, Waldviertel, Forest Quarter, Lower Austria, Austria

Asia, India, Rajasthan State, Sawai Madhopur District, near Ranthambore National Park. Women gather at the end of the days work as labourers at an earthworks supplying material for road buildiing.

Yemen, Inland, portrait of smiling local men standing with famers ploughing field in the background

Woman carrying a fresh cheese from store in factory, Sweden

Cuba, Havana. Grading, sorting and packaging handmade cigars, The H.Upmann Cigar Factory, Havana, Cuba

Cuba, Havana. Grading, sorting and packaging handmade cigars, The H.Upmann Cigar Factory, Havana, Cuba

Cuba, Havana. Hand rolling cigars, The H.Upmann Cigar Factory, Havana, Cuba

Russia, White Sea, Solovetsky Islands. The Kremlin Wall.

Philippines, Luzon Island, The Cordillera Mountains, Kalinga Province, Tulgao Village near Tinglayan. Elderly woman working in water filled rice terraces with fish traps.

A Sao Tomense woman carries a basket full of cocoa beans at the cocoa processing plant in Agua Ize, a small Sao Tomense village. Cocoa is the country's chief export. Sao Tome and Principe is Africa's...

A Sao Tomense woman sifts the dust from the cocoa beans at the cocoa plant in the village of Agua Ize. The idea is that wind will take the dust from the beans as they are repeatedly poured between two...

A Bara woman works in her paddy fields close to the Isalo National Park. Rice is the staple food of the Malagasy people. She has put on her face a paste made from the powdered seeds and wood of a spe...

An old Kikuyu lady picks coffee.Taken in the 1960's, this photograph depicts a traditional form of dress and ear ornaments among Kikuyu women, which has completely disappeared.

A young Dorze boy winds cotton onto a bobin for his father. Dorze men are synonymous with weaving the best cotton cloth in Ethiopia.

Shaded from the hot sun, a Karo woman grinds sorghum using large flat stones. It is customary for females of the tribe when in their teens to make a small hole in the flesh below their lower lips into...

Underage migrant worker harvesting sugar cane for the production of ethanol and biodiesel, Montero, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, South America

North Korea, Pyongyang. Construction of a new building.

North Korea, Pyongyang. Paintings within the Sino-Korean Friendship Tower depicting Korean and Chinese soldiers working together to help reconstruct North Korea after the War.

1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

Che Guevara Memorial during 1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

1st of May Labour Day Parade, Plaza de la Revolucion, Revolution Square, Havana, La Habana Province, Cuba

1st of May Labour Day Banner, Santa Clara, Villa Clara Province, Cuba

Women selling their fish in the fishing market of Nouakchott, Mauritania, northwestern Africa, Africa

Glowing hot slag from iron production is tipped from a ladle car into a pit, slag car at the Krupp Mannesmann steelworks, industrial plant Duisburg-Huckingen, Duisburg, Ruhr district, North Rhine-West...

Tonga woman carries a basket with millet to her village at the Lake Kariba, Zambia, Africa

Woman picks off the harvested dates from the stalks, palmeries of Erfoud in the Tafilalt, Southeast Morocco, Marocco

Banana sellers and workers on the Broadway Market, Ernakulam, Kerala, India, Asia

Man on wooden sluice to regulate the water level of the Pokkali rice fields during ebb and flood, backwaters, Ernakulam District, Kerala, India, Asia

Rice farmers at harvest time, women carry bundles of rice, south of Ambositra, Madagascar, Africa

A farmer uses cattle and a plough made of wood for traditional agriculture on a field, Ranakpur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

A farmer uses cattle and a plough made of wood for traditional agriculture on a field, Ranakpur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Akha hill tribe woman picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Akha hill tribe woman picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Akha hill tribe women picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Akha hill tribe women picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Akha hill tribe woman picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Akha hill tribe women picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Akha hill tribe women picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia

Akha hill tribe women picking tea, Doi Mae Salong, North Thailand, Thailand, Asia