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A young man sits on the bare concrete floor of an unfinished room, cutting a plank with a green electric circular saw. He wears a red-and-grey striped t-shirt, grey trousers and dark shoes, with a wristband on one wrist. Around him lie scattered wooden planks, loose bricks, dust and tangled cables, and bare brick walls and a concrete column rise behind him. The scene suggests construction or renovation work in progress.

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December 17 20092009-12-17 +1 copiesDecember 06 20072007-12-06A worker in a blue and white striped shirt and checked lungi sits on a low red brick wall, cutting a granite block with a handheld angle grinder. Around him are piles of pale grey and tan cut stone slabs and rough rocks scattered on the sandy ground. Behind him, a second worker in a white shirt and pink head cloth carries a bag near a mound of sand, with bamboo stalks at left and a red boundary wall behind. The scene reads as ongoing stone masonry and site construction work.2016-09-07A close photograph of two workers cutting a wooden log on a concrete slab at a construction site. The worker on the right wears a red and white striped shirt and kneels while holding a green handheld power saw with a metal blade against the log. Another worker on the left, in brown clothing, steadies the log with his hand. Several cut logs lie in the background on sandy ground. No a person candidate is visible.2009-10-15January 17 20102010-01-17A construction worker seen from behind sits on a concrete slab edge at a building site, operating a green power tool with a black cable. He wears a white striped collared shirt and a red and green checked head wrap. Rusty steel reinforcement bars rise in the foreground and background, and wooden planks lie across the concrete deck. Green trees and hills are visible beyond the site.2009-10-15November 19 20162016-11-19November 29 20132013-11-29A photograph of an outdoor construction work area. In the foreground a man in a blue striped shirt and white lungi crouches and cuts a grey granite paving stone with a handheld angle grinder, sparks and stone dust around him. A pile of cut and uncut grey and beige granite stone blocks lies on the sandy ground beside a red brick boundary wall. Behind him, another man in a white shirt and white dhoti carries a bag, and a few more workers are faintly visible near the wall. Yellow bamboo stalks grow to the left, a large green tree stands at right, and an air conditioning unit is mounted on the wall. No ceremony, a person or event is visible.2016-09-07 +1 copiesA worker in a yellow and white checked shirt, grey trousers, green checked cap and flip-flops bends over a bare floor in an unfinished room, using a handheld green-and-grey power tool to cut or scrape a grey tile. Scattered broken tile pieces, paper and packing material lie on the floor beside a white wall and stacked wrapped white cabinets on the left.2010-01-16 +1 copiesA photograph of an open-air construction yard beside a concrete building with exposed pipes and wiring overhead. Four workers are crouched or seated on the bare concrete floor assembling wooden frames; one wears a blue cap and another a grey shirt. Stacks of planed timber lean against the walls and loose wooden strips and offcuts lie scattered across the ground. A red cloth hangs on a metal gate. No a person candidate is visible, and the scene shows labour rather than any ritual or discourse.2007-12-06A worker in a green striped shirt, khaki shorts, sandals and a red checked head cloth cuts a large pale stone block with a green angle grinder in a dusty, open-sided stone workshop. Chips and fragments of stone litter the ground and piles of cut blocks sit behind him. The photo is a site image of stone cutting rather than a ritual or discourse scene.2014-09-17