Uganda

Nobel Mwijukye, a second-year fine art student at Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda, sculpts his hand out of clay during class. Mwijukye aspires to be a renowned sculptor and hopes to teach fine art at Kyambogo University after he graduates.... more

Zimbabwe

Watson Mukute shaves Stanley Gonese in Luveve 5, a suburb of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Mukute, who has cut customers’ hair under this tree for about three years, uses an electric trimmer powered by a car battery. “Most of my clients prefer to have thei... more

Guatemala

Diego Satat, 29, learned carpentry from his father. Here, he sands wooden posts for tables and chairs in his own shop, located in front of his home in the Nebaj municipality in the department of Quiché, Guatemala.... more

Nepal

Friends Sawaney Buda (left), 75, and Sunakhari Budha, 77, sit in the sun and roll woolen, or yarn made by carding wool, outside their home in Birendranagar, a city in Nepal’s Surkhet District. The two women learned to knit woolen sweaters when they... more

Uganda

John Lwanyonga (front) and Bosco Nsubuga, brickmakers in the Kyebando village of Uganda’s Wakiso District, throw mud at a kiln in which bricks are made. The mud helps trap the heat inside the kiln, which ensures that the bricks are of a high qualit... more

Mexico

Alberto Sánchez, 5, dances alongside his father during the Carnaval Zoque Coiteco in Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, a town in Mexico’s Chiapas state. This Christian Carnival celebration contains influences from the Spanish, Arabic and Zoque cultures th... more