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  • The highland camp with its 1.500 workers became the fifth largest city in Iceland. The camp is like an autonomous space where everything runs for its workers. This is the laundry operation for the workers.
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  • Items for sale in the workers highland camp in one of the two shops serving 1.500 workers.
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  • Some workers that have a long term contract brought with them their families, which were to stay at the highland camps.
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  • Construction Workers in Beijing. China
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  • Construction Workers in Beijing, China
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  • Workers coming out from one of the tunnels in the construction of the Karahnjukar dam. Karahnjukar, Iceland.
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  • Workers live in the highland camps under the largest European glacier Vatnjokul. Some workers with long contracts took the family to live with them.
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  • At one point the highland camp had 1.500 workers, skilled and unskilled from everywhere in the world. Workers watching a football match in the social club.
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  • Zhi Du Coal Mine, Laoyshing mountains.  This is a legal coal mine.  Workers are registered and do enjoy better working conditions.  Two coal miners resting.
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  • Workers in the early morning hours ending their night shift in one of the tunnels. Karahnjukar, Iceland
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  • Most workers unless with families live only in a room in the highland camp. Normally these were subdivided by various contractors.
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  • The village of Wangjiazhai has a coal refinery where many of its inhabitants work.  Workers outside the refinery.
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  • Over 5.000 workers from around the world were employed in the construction of the Karahnjukar dam in Iceland and a temporary camp was built for this community.
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  • Postcards of a beautiful Iceland in the only supermarket on the highland camp where the workers of the Karahnjukar dam live.
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  • The only coffee shop in the highland camp where 1.500 migrant workers live. The camp is adjacent to the largest glacier in Europe.
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  • A demonstration for the workers rights in Berlin, Germany.
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  • Protesters gather in Berlin in a demonstration for the workers rights.
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  • A demonstration for the workers rights in Berlin, Germany.
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  • For the illegal coal miners their accommodation in very poor and lacks of basic standards. The workers co-habit in one room. Yushe Coal Mine, Laoying Mountains, China.
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  • Some workers have their families living with them. These are generally those that were on long contract.
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  • Protesters gather in Berlin in a demonstration for the workers rights.
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  • A woman sits in a coffee shop situated in a remote area on the north-east part of Iceland. The coffee shop was temporarily opened to cater the workers building a dam.
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  • One worker going back to his room after his work shift. Karahnjukar, Iceland
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  • A commission from the National Power Company in Iceland, Landsvirkjun to work on a project to highlight the skills, the multiculturalism and the magnitude of the project which was to create the largest dam in Europe, Karahnjukar dam in Iceland.
    LANDSVIRKJUN (National Power Company..and)
  • Overground coal is extracted and carried into wicker buckets to the refinery.  Men and women carry up to 50kg of coal on their back and they are paid by the amount of buckets.
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  • Coal miners working in overground mining.
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  • Overground coal is extracted and carried into wicker backets to the refinery.  Men and women carry up to 50kg of coal on their back and they are paid by the amount of backets.
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  • Wu Ci Re, coal miner sitting on the doorstep of a wooden room that he shares with a group of coal miners.  The room is the only space they have to live in and it is situated outside the mine.  Yushe Coal Mine, illegal coal mine on the Laoying Mountain.
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  • Lan Ba Coal Mine, an illegal coal mine on the Laoying Mountains in South West China.   Illegal coal mines normally are run by a business man in complicity with a local sheriff.  They are generally small and situated in the inner parts of mountains.  If accidents occur they are simply shut and covered as if they never existed.  In illegal coal mines accidents occur more frequently because even the basic health and safety measures are ignored.  Just the bare fact that these mines are run on just one point of entrance and exit makes them extremely dangerous: if an accident occurs close to the shaft there is no passage to escape from.  However, the economic boom of the recent years in China has seen a huge migration for work particularly from rural areas because of the enormous decline in farming.  Many desperate people leave their homes searching for work and accepting any terms of employment
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  • China is one of the largest producer of coal in the world. Some areas where coal is abundant the whole population works around the coal from extracting, refining, selling and also employing it for cooking and heating. Many women are working in coal mining, although they are not allowed to work underground. . .
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  • Wangjiazhai is a coal mining village in South West China.  Many of its inhabitants work with coal from digging, transporting and removal.  Surface mining from an open cast mining covers large areas of the village...
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  • Coal miners often live in the closest villages or next to the mines. Wangjiazhai is a typical coal mining community.  Those that live in this village work in the mines nearby, in the refinery and or in surface mining.  This is the main square of Wangjiazhai village with some of the coal miners returned from work.
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  • The village of Wangjiazhai has a coal refinery where many of its inhabitants work.  The air is filled with the greyness of coal.  When i look at this picture i always feel as being the end of something.
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  • Normally large groups of coal miners live in the same place in the proximity of the mines.  They live together sharing all the amenities. .Laoying mountains, Yushe Coal Mine.
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  • Large groups of coal miners live in the proximity of the mines.  They live together in a small space sharing all the amenities. Yushe Coal Mine, illegal coal mine on the Laoying Mountain.
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  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain in South West China is an illegal coal mine. They are able to operate because of the complicity with a local sheriff.  Illegal coal mines are often situated in the inner parts of mountains and very small.  If accidents occur they are simply shut and covered as if they never existed.. In coal miners run illegaly accidents occur  frequently because health and safety measures are ignored.  Just the bare fact that these mines are run on just one point of entrance and exit makes them extremely dangerous because if an accident occurs close to the shaft there is no passage to escape from.
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  • There are a lot of women working in coal mining overground in China. They are not allowed underground due to superstitious belief that they would bring bad luck. Their tasks are equal to men.  Overground they dug coal and carry to refineries. Wangjizhai, South West  China.
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  • Women are not allowed to go down the caves because of superstition so they work on surface mining only.  Their work varies from digging to carrying coal and does not differ from that of men.
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  • Many of the villagers of Wangjiazhai work with coal from selling to refining, digging and collecting.  Their homes and lifestyle are quite poor and coal seems to be part of it from being a source of income to be is used for heating and cooking. Children help their parents in collecting coal.
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  • Street vendors in the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria
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  • China is one of the largest producers of coal in the world, but it has also one of the worse recorded mining conditions claiming thousands of lives every year.  To make matters worse, illegal coal mining has increased over the years putting the coal miners' lives at greater risks.  Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying Mountain is an example of one of the many illegal coal mines.  Safety measures are no-existing; broken rails, only one exit and entry point and no protective clothing or equipment to name a few.
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  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying Mountains in South West China.  An illegal coal mine normally run by a business man in complicity with the local sheriff.  Illegal coal mines are generally situated in the inner parts of mountains and very small.  If accidents occur they are simply shut and covered as if they never existed.  In coal miners run illegally accidents occur more frequently because health and safety measures are ignored.  Just the bare fact that these mines run on just one point of entrance and exit makes them extremely dangerous because if an accident occurs close to the shaft there is no passage to escape from.  However, the economic boom of the recent years in China has seen a huge migration for work particularly from rural areas because of the enormous decline in farming.  Many desperate people leave their homes searching for work and accepting any terms of employment.
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  • A chinese coal miner returning to the village of Wanghazhai after a day work.
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  • Entire families live and work in coal mining. Often they live in proximity of the mines.  Children of coal miners since early age help out.  Zhi Du coal mine.  This is a legal coal mine.
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  • Many of the villagers of Wangjiazhai work with coal from selling to refining, digging and collecting.  Their homes and lifestyle are quite poor and coal seems to be part of it from being a source of income to be is used for heating and cooking.
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  • Women are not allowed to go down the caves because of superstition so they work on surface mining only.  Their work varies from digging to carrying coal and does not differ from that of men.
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  • Large groups of coal miners live in the proximity of the mines.  They live together in a small space sharing all the amenities. Yushe Coal Mine, illegal coal mine on the Laoying Mountain.
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  • wjanghazai, a coal mining village in Guizho, South West China. Miners collecting coal in an open cast area in the middle of the village.
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  • Wanghazai is a coal mining village in the Laoying mountains in Guizho, China. The way coal is extracted by using old machinery does not make the already existing pollution any better. Even worse, there are many illegal coal mines which escalates the problem.
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  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain. Illegal coal mine. It is a small coal mine owned by a private individual. A coal mine at work. the trolley is slided down on the rail into the tunnel.
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  • Normally large groups of coal miners live in the same place in the proximity of the mines.  They live together sharing all the amenities. .Laoying mountains, Yushe Coal Mine.
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  • Families live close to the mines.  Their homes and lifestyles are connected to mining and to the use of coal.  Liupanshi, China
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  • Overground coal is extracted and carried into wicker backets to the refinery.  Men and women carry up to 50kg of coal on their back and they are paid by the amount of buckets.
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  • Rubber boots on coal mine. China is one of the largest producer of coal in the world and it has also one of the worse recorded mining conditions. And to make matter worse, illegal coal mining has increased over the years making coal miners lives at even more risks. Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain is an example of one of the illegal coal mines. ..
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  • Many women work in coal mining. They work in overground mining. Wanghazhai, South West China
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  • Large groups of coal miners live in the same accommodation in the proximity of the mines.  They share all the amenities. Yushe Coal Mine, illegal coal mine on the Laoying Mountain.
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  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain, an illegal coal mine. China is one of the largest producer of coal in the world, but it has also one of the  worse recorded mining conditions. To make matters worse, illegal coal mining has increased over the years making coal miners lives at even more risks. Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain is an example of one of the illegal coal mines. The safety measures in the illegal coal mines are almost no-existing. To name, some trolleys pushed by the miners often escape the broken rails, there is only one exit and entry point...
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  • A coal miner working overground digs and carries coal in wicker buckets. Wangjiazhai, China
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  • Children of coal miners are helping out, often at an early age. Surface mining in Wangjazhai, China
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  • A security standing guard outside a small illegal coal mine on the Laoying mountains in China,
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  • Coal is used widely in every household both as a mean of heating, cooking.  Part of the coal is sold on the streets to the people. Individuals buy it in large amounts and in a rough form and then sold on the streets in carts and on bicycles.
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  • Illegal coal mining is widespread in China. Coal mines illegally run are operated under the corrupted eye of a local sheriff. Outdated equipment is adopted in coal mining.
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  • Many Icelanders have left Iceland to seek work abroad. Orn used to work at sea and he lost his job. He is now working in Oman.
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  • Thousands of demonstrators take part in a rally in Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, calling on the government to resign for the national financial crisis, Nov. 2008. The government took control of the three largest banks, whilst the Icelandic economy remain in unprecedented instability.  The population has lost confidence and trust in the government. Many losing their life savings and jobs. The situation remains even more precarious due to the lack of international aid loans and trade shrinking. A banner on the Parliament wall says "Who has stolen the cookies with the dollar sign?"
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  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying Mountain in South West China is an illegal coal mine run by a business man in complicity with the local sheriff.  Illegal coal mines are often situated in the most remote parts of mountains and are very small.  If accidents occur they are simply shut and covered as if they never existed.  In coal miners run illegally accidents occur more frequently because health and safety measures are ignored. The economic boom of the recent years in China has seen a huge migration for work from rural areas because of the enormous decline in farming.  Many desperate people leave their homes searching for work and accepting any terms of employment.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers03.jpg
  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain in South West China.  An illegal coal mine normally run by a business man in complicity with the local sheriff.  Illegal coal mines are often situated in the inner parts of mountains and very small.  If accidents occur they are simpy shut and covered as if they never existed..In coal miners run illegaly accidents occur more frequently because health and safety measures are ignored.  Just the bare fact that these mines are run on just one point of entrance and exist makes them extremely dangerous because if an accident occurs close to the shaft there is no passage to escape from.
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  • The Coal is ready to be sold on the streets. People employ coal for heating and cooking. Here it is weighted . Individuals often buy it in large amounts and then sold on the streets in carts and on bycicles.
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  • Often children work on the overground mining in China.
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  • Wangjiazhai, a village of coal miners.  Coal seems to be everywhere, on the roads, on the colour of the houses, on people.
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  • Thousands of demonstrators take part in a rally in Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, calling on the government to resign for the national financial crisis, Nov. 2008. Demonstrators in Parliament Square in Reykjavik.
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  • Coal is everywhere, even at the footsteps of homes.  A home in the village of Wangjiazhai.
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  • China is one of the largest producer of coal in the world, but it has also one of the  worse recorded mining conditions. To make matters worse, illegal coal mining has increased over the years making coal miners lives at even more risks. Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain is an example of one of the illegal coal mines. The safety measures in the illegal coal mines are almost no-existing.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers_041.jpg
  • Wangjiazhai, a village of coal miners.  Coal seems to be everywhere, on the roads, on the colour of the houses and on people.
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  • Families live close to the mines.  Their homes and lifestyle is connected to mining and to the use of coal.  A woman and child outside their home.
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  • Wangjiazhai is a coal village. Coal permeates the life style of its inhabitants and it is the main source of income.  Coal is employed for heating and cooking.
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  • Surface mining from an open cast mining covers large areas of the village of Wangjiazhai.  Coal is extracted and carried into wicker buckets to the refinery.  Men and women carry up to 50kg of coal on their back and they are paid by the amount of buckets.
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  • A coal miner in Wangjiazhai, South West China, working over-ground mining. Coal miners carry up to 50kg of coal on their back. They are paid by the amount of buckets they fill and carry.
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  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain in South West China.  An illegal coal mine normally run by a business man in complicity with the local sheriff.  Illegal coal mines are often situated in the inner parts of mountains and very small.  If accidents occur they just shut and covered as if nothing ever was running there..A coal miner outside the cave working on the coal extracted.
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