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A construction site photograph showing a man in a pale long-sleeved shirt and checked lungi pouring water from a blue-rimmed metal bucket onto a concrete block wall being built. Beside him a woman in a blue saree with a teal head covering and a yellow blouse stands near a pile of dark material and steel rebar rods. Wooden stakes and rope fence the plot, and a white building with red roofs and palm trees stand in the hazy background.

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A construction worker in a white short-sleeved shirt, blue lungi and a pink-and-white checked head wrap leans over a concrete block wall, pouring or smoothing water from a small metal vessel onto the courses. Cinder blocks and red-brown earth lie around the site, with wooden scaffolding and green trees behind. No a person candidate is visible; the scene shows a single worker at the building site.2006-11-16A photograph of an outdoor construction site at dusk. Concrete columns with protruding rebar rise from a half-built structure of grey concrete blocks. In the foreground, a man in a white shirt, pale trousers and a white cap bends over a metal tray, mixing or scooping wet grey mortar on the ground. Beside him, a woman in a red and white patterned sari with a head covering carries material. A young man in a green shirt stands on a higher section behind them. A tarpaulin is draped over a column and a blue tarp lies at lower left. Flat open land with scattered trees and a white building stretches behind the site under a pale sky. No a person candidate is visible.2009-10-31A worker in a pink-and-white head wrap, white shirt and blue lungi lays concrete blocks on a low wall at a construction site, scooping mortar with a small metal trowel. Behind him stand a wooden scaffold frame, mounds of red-brown earth, stacked grey blocks and trees. A small red vehicle is visible at left. No a person candidate is visible.2006-11-16A construction worker in a cream shirt and blue-and-white checked lungi stands on a concrete block wall, placing a cinder block on a stacked column while leaning forward. He wears an orange wristband and sandals. Behind him, workers in white shirts and lungis move across a red dirt site with a white van, stacked timber and a low wall under a cloudy sky.2013-06-27January 26 20102010-01-26A young worker in a light grey-white button-up shirt and dark trousers stands on a concrete ledge, holding a shallow round tray of grey wet mortar or cement in both hands. Behind him a second worker in a blue shirt is partly visible at the right edge, beside a wooden pole. The setting is an open, dry, half-built site with low cylindrical white bollards, young trees, a distant white multi-storey building with red roofs, and a pale concrete wall in the foreground. No ritual, deity or a person depiction is visible.2010-01-26A construction site on open, dry ground with piles of cut timber and stacks of stone blocks. Several women and men work on rough concrete foundations. In the foreground a woman in an orange and green floral sari and a red blouse carries a terracotta pot. Beside her a woman in a yellow sari holds a metal tray of grey mortar, and another woman in a purple sari and white head cloth walks past. A man in a blue top and red shorts stands at right, and a man in a white shirt bends near a green hose at centre. Distant trees and low buildings fill the background under a hazy sky.2013-06-25October 27 20162016-10-27October 31 20092009-10-31 +2 copiesA worker in a white shirt, blue lungi and red-and-white head cloth bends over a half-built concrete block wall at a construction site. He holds a trowel and is laying blocks between two tall concrete pillars with exposed rebar on top. Dirt mounds, excavated trenches, scaffolding poles, trees and a blue sky surround the site.2006-11-16November 19 20162016-11-19A construction worker in a grey cap and red-and-white striped short-sleeved shirt with white trousers plasters a concrete column with a trowel on an outdoor building site. Beside him, a worker in a white head cloth and checked shirt crouches beside a metal bowl of wet mortar. Grey concrete block walls, a steel frame, rebar and gravel surround them, with unfinished buildings visible in the background.2009-12-15