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A construction site beside an orange-plastered building with a thatched roof edge and small red-framed windows. In the foreground a man in a red t-shirt, grey trousers and a white head cloth carries a round metal tray and walks across sand. Behind him several workers bend over and sift or shovel white gravel piles near a green truck parked on the dirt ground. A white boundary wall, bare rocky earth and scattered trees are in the background, and a hose runs along the building wall.

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Aadheenam Construction 20092009-01-01A construction site photograph showing workers moving building materials. In the foreground a man in a checked shirt, khaki trousers and sandals carries a red basin of sand on his head. Beside him a second worker in a grey shirt and blue trousers with an orange head cloth pours from a white bucket into a grey concrete mixer on wheels. Piles of grey stone blocks, sand heaps, sacks and a blue barrel surround them. Behind, a red-brick building stands beside a multi-storey concrete frame under construction with workers on its floors.2009-10-15A photograph of a construction site beside a grey concrete-block wall with window openings. A large heap of crushed grey stone sits on bare reddish-brown earth. Several workers dig and shovel in the soil: a man in a pink head cloth and pink shirt, a man in a white checked shirt and yellow lungi, and a man in an orange head cloth and white shirt crouching with a small blue bucket and a hoe. Another worker in a white cap and white shirt stands near a blue drum, and a figure in white clothing is at the right edge. Hoses and a few loose stones lie on the ground.2006-12-12Outdoor construction site beside a red-brick multi-storey residential building with balconies. Several workmen in lungis and rough shirts work on a paved yard of stone slabs laid over sand. One man in a pink shirt and checked lungi holds a long tool, another in a pink shirt swings a pickaxe-like tool beside a blue tray, and older men in white dhotis and checked shirts stand near cut stone blocks and bricks. A white-turbaned man in a blue shirt gestures at the ground. Bamboo scaffolding, green trees and a corrugated shed sit in the background.2016-09-03A photograph of a dry, reddish-brown earth site under construction at a rural compound. In the middle ground, a thatched palm-leaf shelter with a sloped roof stands beside low brick and stone walls. Several workers, mostly women in colourful saris (blue, pink, orange and green), are carrying materials, handling sacks and gravel piles and sitting near heaps of sand, rubble and concrete blocks. A man in white clothing and a woman in a yellow sari stand at right beside a blue handcart. Green trees, palms and a pink-flowering shrub frame the background under a hazy sky with a telecom tower.July 08 20082008-07-08April 2008 - Making Of Kailaasa In TiruvannamalaiOutdoor construction site on bare orange-brown earth with stacks of grey granite slabs and cut stone blocks in the background. Four workers are shovelling fine pale grey sand: a woman in a striped top and blue patterned skirt bends with a shovel into a yellow basin, another woman in a blue floral skirt and head wrap pours from a yellow basin, a woman in a plaid top with a green basin balanced on her head stands at left, and a man in a white shirt and white head wrap crouches at right with a shovel.2016-10-27A construction site photograph with excavated red-brown earth and trenches. In the foreground a worker in a khaki shirt and dark trousers, bent over, lays pale grey cut stone blocks along a trench edge, with a stone-cutting tool in hand. Beside him stand two men: one in a blue shirt and jeans, the other in a white sleeveless vest and light trousers, both wearing head wraps. Rusty steel reinforcement rods rise on the left, and piles of stone and white sacking lie on the right. Behind is a wooden pole fence, green field grass and orange-roofed buildings. No ceremony or deity is visible.2010-08-21February 23 20082008-02-23June 15 20132013-06-15 +2 copiesOctober 27 20162016-10-27