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A photo of ashram grounds where workers build a low wall of cut grey and tan stone blocks in front of a red-painted wall. On the left, a man in a maroon shirt and white trousers with a white head cloth stands near wooden scaffold poles and a rope. In the centre, an older man with white hair wears a cream shirt and holds a white bucket with a rope handle, standing on flat paving stones. On the right, a man in a light green shirt and dark checked lungi works at the wall. Loose stone blocks and a grey sack lie on the grass in the foreground.

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A photograph of two men working on a red-painted wall outdoors. In the foreground a man in a lime green and yellow striped short-sleeved shirt with a red wrist thread applies cement or plaster along the base of the wall with a trowel, while an older man with white hair and a light beige shirt stands beside him watching. Between the bricks at the foot of the wall is fresh grey mortar. Behind them a wooden scaffold pole leans against the wall, and a green lawn, a tree and a red boundary wall are visible in the background. Chalk or pencil marks are scrawled on the red wall surface.2016-09-15A photograph of labourers mixing and spreading wet concrete on a dirt-and-gravel construction site under palm trees. Six men work the grey sand-cement pile: the man at left in a light shirt watches, a man in a striped shirt and tan trousers shovels, a man in a white headwrap and lungi carries a bag, another in a white turban and striped lungi stands barefoot, and a man in a red turban and cream shirt bends to pour from a sack. Stacked bags, steel rods, scaffold poles and a red brick wall surround them. No identifiable a person is present.2006-12-19October 26 20162016-10-26 +1 copiesA construction site beside a bright red-painted building at an ashram-style compound. Workers lay large grey stone slabs on the ground in the foreground while a line of grey block masonry is being built against the red wall. A man in a white-and-blue checked shirt and grey trousers stands at right beside a wooden frame, and a man in a white head wrap and blue-striped lungi works at the wall. Other workers in shirts and lungis carry materials and move across the open ground, and a blue tractor is parked at left under trees. Loose bricks, buckets and a red container lie on the stones. No a person candidate is visible.2016-09-15November 02 20162016-11-02 +1 copiesA 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.2006-11-16June 24 20132013-06-24A photograph of a construction site where three men mix and spread wet concrete on the ground. The man on the left, in a white shirt and white dhoti with glasses and a tilak on his forehead, leans forward over the mix. The man in the center wears a white shirt and a green-and-yellow checked lungi and uses a flat metal trowel to scoop grey concrete from a metal tray. The man on the right wears a striped white shirt, a white dhoti and a pink-and-white checked head cloth, and stands bent over the mixture. Sand heaps, scattered bricks and a wooden frame sit around them, and other workers and a woman in an orange sari are visible in the background.2006-12-09November 02 20162016-11-02 +1 copiesOutdoor construction scene beside a grey stone boundary wall with red brick coping and green shrubs and trees behind. Three labourers work on a concrete or mortar strip: a man in a white shirt and grey trousers holds a long-handled trowel, a man in a checked shirt, blue-and-white lungi and red headcloth stands watching, and a shirtless man in a lungi pours from a round metal pan along a rope-guided line. Dry earth lies in the foreground. A small white plaque or stone sits atop the wall.2006-12-19A construction site photograph showing workers building a low wall of blue-grey dressed stone blocks bedded in mortar on excavated reddish-brown earth. A man in a striped light shirt and blue trousers, with a grey cloth tied on his head, leans over the wall and spreads mortar with a trowel. Beside him, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands with a cloth on his head, and at right a man in a light shirt and green lungi stands in sandals. Loose cut stones lie scattered across the ground, with metal basins and rubble behind them.2009-10-15September 16 20162016-09-16