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A construction worker in a white head cloth and striped shirt with a pale checked lungi stoops in dry sandy ground, using a flat trowel to work a mound of wet mortar beside a shallow pit. A blue bucket and a grey tray sit near his feet. Behind him stands a newly built terracotta-coloured brick building with large window openings, a short flight of red tiled steps, and potted palms along the front. A green wheeled bin is at right, and sacks rest against bamboo poles that brace the structure. No deity, ritual or a person depiction is visible.

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June 26 20132013-06-26December 11 20092009-12-11A photograph of a labourer squatting on bare ground, mixing material with a long-handled trowel and a small hand tool. He wears a checked short-sleeved shirt, khaki trousers and sandals, with a red mark on his forehead. Beside him sit a black plastic bucket, a green basin and a large heap of brown sand against a red-painted wall with green plants.2016-09-08December 19 20092009-12-19A dusty open construction site in daylight beside a partly built concrete block with grey plastered walls, an orange-painted brick wall, and a corrugated green roof edge. A man in a white shirt and grey trousers stands at the building entrance near a printed sheet taped to the wall. Stacked wooden poles, loose bricks, white cloth, sacks, a metal drum and buckets lie on the sand. Behind, a multi-storey concrete frame with scaffolding and tall construction rods rises under a clear sky. No ritual or a person presence is visible.2010-02-03A man in a pale blue-and-white checked shirt and light green trousers bends over a mound of sand at a red-earth construction site, digging with a long-handled shovel. Stacked grey sacks of cement or material sit behind him, and a wire fence with a few trees runs along the top of the frame. No ritual, deity or a person depiction is visible; the scene shows ground preparation and mixing work.A labourer in a pink head cloth, a striped white shirt and green shorts bends forward on bare reddish-brown earth, raking or levelling the soil with a tool in his right hand. Behind him rises a grey stone boundary wall with red and white painted bands along the top, and bricks are stacked at the upper right. A trench and scattered stones lie to the left.2006-12-19Outdoor construction site on bare orange-brown earth with stacks of grey granite slabs and cut stone blocks in the background. Four workers are shovelling fine pale grey sand: a woman in a striped top and blue patterned skirt bends with a shovel into a yellow basin, another woman in a blue floral skirt and head wrap pours from a yellow basin, a woman in a plaid top with a green basin balanced on her head stands at left, and a man in a white shirt and white head wrap crouches at right with a shovel.2016-10-27A construction site outdoors where workers are mixing mortar on bare earth beside a small concrete structure. A man in a white shirt, grey trousers and a green head cloth pours cement from a blue woven sack onto a heap of reddish sand. Beside him a worker in a purple checked top, green lungi and white head wrap bends over the pile with gloved hands. On the right an older man in a cream shirt and blue-striped dhoti stands watching, and another person in an orange shirt stands further back. A black hose runs across the ground, and white buildings, trees and a red metal railing sit in the background. Stacked concrete blocks lean against a wooden frame at right.September 08 20162016-09-08Outdoor construction work on a paved site with palm trees and a scaffold behind. Several labourers work around a large heap of grey wet cement or concrete mix spread on the ground, with torn cement bags nearby. A man in a red knit cap and checked shirt on the left, a man in a striped sweater and white turban on the right, and others in lungis and light shirts shovel and spread the mix with tools. Tall lamp posts and a blue barrel sit in the background. No ritual, discourse or a person presence is visible.2006-12-19December 11 20092009-12-11