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

Child workers use their feet to mould aluminium utensils as they produce and polish them in a factory near Buriganga River in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Liban Quarry, a former World war 2 labour camp also used as a film set in Schindler's List, Krakow, Poland, Eastern Europe

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

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...

Workers sorting and processing of grapes in El Principal winery, Pirque, Maipo Valley, Cordillera Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Chouara Tannery, Medina, Fes el Bali, Fes, Morocco, North Africa

Tanneries, Fes el-Bali, Morocco, Africa

Fishermen taking their boat out at dawn, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Worker carrying dozens of bricks on her head at a shipyard near Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Workers use their feet to mould aluminium utensils as they produce and polish them in a factory near Buriganga River in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Workers use their feet to mould aluminium utensils as they produce and polish them in a factory near Buriganga River in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Workers use their feet to mould aluminium utensils as they produce and polish them in a factory near Buriganga River in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Child workers use their feet to mould aluminium utensils as they produce and polish them in a factory near Buriganga River in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Workers use their feet to mould aluminium utensils as they produce and polish them in a factory near Buriganga River in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Workers use their feet to mould aluminium utensils as they produce and polish them in a factory near Buriganga River in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh.