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Traditional Crafts and Shoemaking

A collection showcasing traditional crafts, featuring artisans making batik, wooden combs, and cobblers repairing shoes across various countries.

Potter in workshop working on earthenware jar

A trader mans his stall in the market in Alexandria, Egypt.

A small space under a balcony becomes a convenient place to carry out business, Mumbai Bombay, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xRajeshxVora/DinodiaxPhotox

Thailand, Chiang Mai Province, Women Shredding Paper At Mae Jo University

Comercio. Rissani. Tafilalt. Marruecos.

Chinese man arranging Peking Duck in window in Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Wholesalers shop bara bazaar kolkata west bengal, India, Asia Copyright: xGoutamxRoy/DinodiaxPhotox

LAO - VIENTIANE LA COMPROMISEMême si elle se rapproche du million dhabitants, Vientiane a encore les allures dune bourgade à côte des mégapoles des pays voisins telles que Bangkok ou Ho-Chi-Minh Ville. Cela nempêche pas la capitale laotienne de rêver du même destin. La culture ancestrale du Laos, étroitement liée au culte bouddhique, se veut sans vains désirs ni ambitions démesurées. Aujourdhui, la rupture est totale et Vientiane en est lillustration. La croissance exponentielle du pays est principalement due aux investissements étrangers, avec en première ligne la Chine, qui viennent puiser dans les nombreuses ressources naturelles du pays, notamment dans les secteurs miniers, forestiers et hydroélectriques.Ainsi, avec la mondialisation qui entraine luniformisation des modes de vie et ces nouvelles richesses qui sont créées, les habitants de la capitale aspirent à un nouveau destin. Tours de verre, centre commerciaux, parcs dattraction, restaurants et cafés branchés commenc

Thailand,Trat Province,Koh Chang,Female Petrol Pump Attendant

Females in Abuja are struggling and making strides in a local cassava processing factory under difficult conditions to produce flour as they wash out chaff from fermented cassava. In the face of economic uncertainties, these young girls and women are navigating various challenges to empower themselves, provide jobs for others and sustain livelihoods. Most of the women here are breadwinners, and they fend for their families. Nigeria.

Jordan, Middle East, Amman. Al Balad district. Shoe shop

The Herndon Official Workers Center allows immigrants a chance to participate in a town-sanctioned system of day-laboring employ

Woman in hijab doing clothing ironing at home

preparing the net

Shop. Sana'a. Yemen. Middle East. (Photo by: Federico Meneghetti/REDA&CO/UIG)

Zardozi and Karchupi motif artisans, mainly from the Bihari community in Chittagong city, remain busy working to meet the demand in markets ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr festival in 2025. Traditional Zardozi and Karchupi artisans are now struggling due to the low prices of machine-made embroidery from India and other Asian countries, rising costs, and declining demand, which threaten their craft in Bangladesh. If things continue this way without government support, these intricate embroidery techniques face an uncertain future. Many of them have already shut down their businesses and switched to other jobs, they added. Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Young clerk checks the stock in a small ceramic shop

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Central America Free Trade Agreement Trade Mission to Guatemala

Bead embroiderers producing Christmas decorations, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Market in Tamale, capital of the northern region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa

Sylhet City Corporation workers spraying pesticide on the street of Sylhet to eradicate Dengue mosquitoes. Recently, the number of dengue patients being increased nationwide due to dengue mosquitos. Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Shop assistant in fish store; Riga, Latvia

Abraham Aller Escalante at work in his showroom in San Blas

Jewelry vendor, Holguin, Cuba

Shoe repair shop in the street. Manual labor. Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam.

hardware shop in sangli, Maharashtra, India, Asia Copyright: xAnilxDave/DinodiaxPhotox

Asia, China. Men playing checkers (MR)

Street butcher in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.

Metal engraver, Fes, Morocco

Watchmaker Repairing Watches In Vinales, Cuba

Bead embroiderer producing Christmas decorations, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Guam, U.S. Territory

Piled Higher and Higher

Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Coastal Road. Man beside Agricultural Extension Information and Dabala Market sign.

Man weighing sharks for sale, Brunei

Japan, Honshu, Kyoto, Man Operating Machine Making Cookies In Window Of Shop.

Selling carpets in the Old City of Baku, Flaming Tower in the distance, Azerbaijan.

Msheireb Downtown Doha, Construction Site, Doha, Qatar. Architect: John McAslan & Partners, 2015. Group portrait of construction workers.

Peru, Cajamarca, Purchasing Gasoline In The Highlands. Man Pouring Gas Through A Funnel Into Van.

Mexican Migrants & Immigration

Annual meeting to determine rules for a farmers village in Jiangsu Province, China

SHENZHEN, GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA - Workers in a garment factory in city of Shenzhen, one of mainland China's first Special Economic Zones, SEZ.

Hair Cutting Salon shop on streets at uttar pradesh India Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

A cartmaker of Santiago do Cacem, Alentejo, Portugal

Clothes shop, souk, market, historic centre of San a , Yemen, Middle East, Asia

Local men paying Chinese cards in unique Guilin Yangshuo area of China (MR)

Team of farmers giving delivery bag order to deliveryman

Women trying on a dress at a tailor's shop of an HIV/AIDS aid organization, Gaborone, Botswana, Africa

Men paying in cash at trade fair stand for minerals, gemstones, pearl necklaces, stone necklaces, womans hand grabs goods unnoticed, Inhorgenta, trade fair for jewellery watches precious stones, luxury, Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Azerbaijan, Lahic. Female shopkeeper in shop. (MR)

Shopkeeper at the spice market in the Old Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sanaa, Yemen, Middle East

United States, USA, California, San Diego, Old Town, Seller of Cigars.

LAO - VIENTIANE LA COMPROMISEMême si elle se rapproche du million dhabitants, Vientiane a encore les allures dune bourgade à côte des mégapoles des pays voisins telles que Bangkok ou Ho-Chi-Minh Ville. Cela nempêche pas la capitale laotienne de rêver du même destin. La culture ancestrale du Laos, étroitement liée au culte bouddhique, se veut sans vains désirs ni ambitions démesurées. Aujourdhui, la rupture est totale et Vientiane en est lillustration. La croissance exponentielle du pays est principalement due aux investissements étrangers, avec en première ligne la Chine, qui viennent puiser dans les nombreuses ressources naturelles du pays, notamment dans les secteurs miniers, forestiers et hydroélectriques.Ainsi, avec la mondialisation qui entraine luniformisation des modes de vie et ces nouvelles richesses qui sont créées, les habitants de la capitale aspirent à un nouveau destin. Tours de verre, centre commerciaux, parcs dattraction, restaurants et cafés branchés commenc

Microfinance loan reimbursement in Northern Togo.

Woman looking at gold jewellery in a shop window, Gold Souk, Deira, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Asia

China, Beijing. Construction workers walking past a temple entrance.

Architects talking at construction site

Apprentice in a Bukavu workshop, DRC

Black-haired New Yorker making a phone call at a telephone pillar with yellow handset, New York City, USA, North America

Barber Shop, Koliwada, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Asia India

TUY HOA, Vietnam (July 3, 2022) - Mr. Marc Knapper, United States Ambassador to Vietnam, gives a coin to Lam Son Primary School's principal in support of Pacific Partnership 2022 engineering initiatives. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.

A duplicate key maker with display of huge key cutouts setting up his wares on a footpath, Mumbai Bombay, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xRajeshxVora/DinodiaxPhotox

Khat Trade

Asia, Jordan, Madaba. Handicraft Center, mosaic. (Editorial Usage Only)

Woman casting vote polling station assembly elections Mumbai Maharashtra India Asia Oct 2009 Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Asia, Iran, Mashhad. Gold merchant.

From right: Abdoul Razal Belemgnegre, head of the training centre, Svenja Schulze (SPD), Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development and a female builder at the agroecological training centre Centre Beo-Noree in Beo-Noree, 04.03.2024.Photographed on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Rwanda, Cyangugu, truck driver

Election officials with electronic voting machines (EVM) looking for their bus to reach their destination polling stations on the eve of the Assam Assembly election in Nagaon district of Assam in India, 26 March 2021.

Man showing patterned fabric rolls to clients in a clothing store

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Elaine Chao Presenting Certificates to the Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) Recipients

LAO - VIENTIANE LA COMPROMISEMême si elle se rapproche du million dhabitants, Vientiane a encore les allures dune bourgade à côte des mégapoles des pays voisins telles que Bangkok ou Ho-Chi-Minh Ville. Cela nempêche pas la capitale laotienne de rêver du même destin. La culture ancestrale du Laos, étroitement liée au culte bouddhique, se veut sans vains désirs ni ambitions démesurées. Aujourdhui, la rupture est totale et Vientiane en est lillustration. La croissance exponentielle du pays est principalement due aux investissements étrangers, avec en première ligne la Chine, qui viennent puiser dans les nombreuses ressources naturelles du pays, notamment dans les secteurs miniers, forestiers et hydroélectriques.Ainsi, avec la mondialisation qui entraine luniformisation des modes de vie et ces nouvelles richesses qui sont créées, les habitants de la capitale aspirent à un nouveau destin. Tours de verre, centre commerciaux, parcs dattraction, restaurants et cafés branchés commenc

Cambodia, Phnom Pehn, Election Poster With Line Of Stalls Selling Fruit Along The Roadside In Front.

Products at the SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association) store where U.S. Secretary of State toured while visiting Mumbai, India July 18, 2009.

Builder

Carpet merchants, Masshad, Iran

Domino players, Bazaar, Baghdad, Iraq, Asia

Kopakama coffee grower's cooperative, Rutsiro, Rwanda. Sign.

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