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A worker in a green cloth wrapped on his head and green shorts with a grey t-shirt strikes a large grey stone with a hammer on a bare reddish-brown earth slope. Several cut grey stones lie around his feet, a white stone wall edge is on the left, a green plastic basin sits at the left edge, and green weeds and young trees fill the background. Visible scale suggests stone-cutting for ongoing construction work.

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A worker in a grey short-sleeved shirt, green shorts, green head wrap and sandals chisels a granite block on a red-earth site. Several pale grey dressed stones lie on the ground around him, with a heap of rubble and larger rocks behind. Low tiled-roof buildings, palm trees and a utility pole sit in the background under an overcast sky.2013-06-08September 07 20162016-09-07September 10 20162016-09-10November 02 20162016-11-02 +1 copiesA 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 elderly man in a white turban and white collared shirt sits on the ground among large cut granite slabs and blocks in reddish earth. He wears a yellow dhoti with a red border and holds a hammer and chisel, working on a grey granite block resting on his knee. Scattered stone chips lie on the ground around him at a quarry or stone-carving site.2009-12-15December 09 20092009-12-09 +1 copiesDecember 19 20062006-12-19July 09 20092009-07-09An outdoor construction site of bare, sandy earth with piles of cut grey granite blocks and stone slabs. Two workers in light clothing crouch among the stone piles, one in a white shirt and orange lungi, the other in a grey shirt, while a third figure stands further back. A tall black dome-topped stone linga stands upright in the middle of the site. Yellow sacks lie on the sand in front, with palm trees, a fence and a tree line behind.2008-11-19Construction workers at an outdoor excavation site dig red earth and set stones along a steep embankment beside a new stepped stone platform. A worker in a white shirt and blue head cloth swings a pickaxe at the slope, while another in a plaid shirt and white head wrap stands by the wall. A bent worker in a checked shirt and purple lungi places rubble stones, and a man in an olive shirt and grey trousers stands on the granite steps. Plastic buckets, a green hose and a water bottle lie near the steps, and a rubble pile sits at the top of the slope. No deity, a person or ritual activity is visible.2008-10-26A photograph of temple construction labour on a sandy site. Three men work barefoot with long-handled hoes or shovels, mixing wet grey concrete mixed with gravel on the ground. The man in the foreground wears a white shirt and a green-and-yellow checked lungi, bending forward over the mix. Behind him another worker in a white shirt and checked lungi stoops with a hoe. At left, a man in a teal top and plaid lungi holds a red bucket, while an orange bucket sits on the sand. Piles of sand and a loose cloth lie in the background.2006-12-09