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A photograph of a construction site. On the left stands a bamboo and thatch-covered shelter or lean-to with woven matting walls and a bamboo frame. Beside it a deep excavation trench has been dug into reddish-brown soil, with loose earth heaped at its edge. A stone slab lies across part of the trench. Behind the pit a white concrete block wall rises above an older stone and mortar retaining wall, with electrical cables running down the wall. No people are visible in the scene.

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December 12 20062006-12-12A photograph of a bare red-earth construction site with tyre tracks across the dirt road. Rough mounds of reddish soil and scattered stones lie along the edges. On the right, a small thatched hut with a bamboo frame stands beside the site; a framed picture is attached to its front. Behind it, low pale concrete block walls and green trees and shrubs stretch across the background under a pale sky. No people are visible.December 12 20062006-12-12 +1 copiesA man in an orange-saffron dhoti-style wrap walks barefoot-to-sandals past a half-built structure of grey concrete blocks under a thatched palm-leaf roof. He has long, swept-back dark hair and a bare upper body draped with the orange cloth, and wears brown sandals. The doorway frame is carved and decorated, opening onto an unfinished interior with stacked blocks. A low block wall and scattered blocks, bamboo poles and sand surround the dusty construction site under an overcast sky. The scene reflects ongoing ashram construction work.2006-09-19A photograph of storm-damaged buildings on a residential street. In the centre a small structure with a collapsed thatched roof of dried palm fronds and bamboo rafters is partly exposed, with bare timber poles propping its green wall. Beside it stand white and orange-painted concrete houses, a light green wall and a corrugated sheet roof with debris scattered on the ground in the foreground. No people are visible.2012-01-07January 06 20122012-01-06November 23 20062006-11-23A dirt path runs past a white-painted wall on the right, with a wire-mesh fence supported by concrete posts on the left. Dense green trees and bushes fill the background, and patches of dry grass grow along the ground. No people or ritual activity are visible in this outdoor scene.August 18 20092009-08-18A photograph of a long, low whitewashed building with a steeply pitched thatched roof of dried palm fronds or straw bundles. Two doorways are visible, one dark wooden door on the left and a lighter wooden door on the right, with small windows beside them. Dark footwear sits at the entrance on bare red earth. The white wall on the left adjoins the structure. A utility pole and trees stand at the right under a pale sky. No people are visible.A photograph of an open-sided thatched structure under construction at an outdoor site. A long, low roof of dried straw or thatch rests on a framework of bamboo poles and wooden posts, with diagonal bracing poles leaning against the sides. Beneath the roof, stacked metal pipes or rods lie on crossbeams above a concrete plinth with red earth exposed inside its perimeter. Palm trees and a leafy branch frame the scene, and a small blue structure appears in the background. No people are visible.2007-06-05Photograph of a rural construction site with thatched-roof huts and partly built cinder-block walls under an overcast sky. A bare-chested man with long dark hair, wearing an orange saffron dhoti wrap and sandals, walks away from the camera across dirt ground past stacked grey concrete blocks and a heap of gravel. A partially visible man in white stands at the left edge. The scene is an ashram building area. Green shrubs and small trees surround the huts.2006-09-16