Peter Menzel Photography : Search - text: material world (Total number of items 704)

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Jap_mw2_19_120_xs.jpg - ID: 10802
created: 2007-09-17T10:53:39
Jap.mw2.19.120.xsFrom coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001. The Ukita family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait. Left to right: Mio Ukita (17, daughter); Sayo Ukita (mother and wife); Maya Ukita (14, daughter); and Kazuo Ukita (father and husband) New possessions include: 2 single beds from Sayo and Kazuo’s room; blankets and sheets; washing machine, rice cooker, electric water pot, cordless phone, vacuum cleaner, gas stove; table, porcelain elephant, globe, 3 clocks, teapot, white ware pottery, selection of books, VCR, hula hoop, massage chair, Othello game, car, new desk, 2 CD players, many CD’s, well over one hundred comic books, Walkman, stuffed animals, two mobile phones, plastic organizer drawers, futon, chair, clothes valet, computer, full length mirror, vanity and stool, exercise stepper, rocking chair, air cleaner. With possessions bought since 1993, Japan From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001. {{Sayo Ukita and her husband Kazuo continue to live in the manicured suburb of northwest Tokyo called Kodaira City. Their daughter Mio is a first year university student, concentrating on biology (her first field experience, in May, was milking a cow). Daughter Maya, 14, attends 8th grade and still plays the piano. Neither girl swims competitively any longer. The family has replaced a great deal of their belongings since the original big picture was taken, hence the large number of items in the Material World 2001 big picture. Their dog Izumaru has died, but they did not replace him. Mio has a new laptop for school, and both girls have mobile phones. The Nintendo game player is still hooked up to the family’s extra television set in the dining room, but it is not used as often as it had been when the girls were younger. The parents have a televisio
copyright: 2001 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com
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Cub_mw2_1_120_xs.jpg - ID: 10711
created: 2007-09-17T10:47:40
Cub.mw2.1.120.xsFrom coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001. The Costa family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait. Left to right, front row: Euripedes Costa (husband of Angelina, father of Eulina, Ramon, and Orlando); Angelina Allouis (wife of Euripedes, mother of Eulina, Ramon, and Orlando); Eulina Costa Allouis (42, daughter of Euripedes and Angelina and mother of Iris and Javier), Iris (daughter of Eulina); Javier (son of Eulina). Back row: Sandra Raymond (wife of Ramon, mother of Lisandra and Favio); Lisandra (16, daughter of Sandra and Ramon); Ramon Allouis Costa (son of Euripedes and Angelina, husband of Sandra, father of Lisandra and Favio); Favio (6, son of Sandra and Ramon) Far back: Orlando Costa Allouis and his wife and two children (they were not part of the original Material World Picture as they didn’t live nearby at the time). Although the house seems to be getting smaller as the children get bigger, part of the reason may be the increase in material possessions as well. New in Euripedes House: Television, fan, two large chairs, sofa covering, dining room set, telephone, blender, dish washer, gas stove, wall clock, wall hanging. New in Eulina’s House: Gas Stove, ceramic deer, television, VCR, television stand, black and white television, wall hanging. New in Ramon’s House: Television, boombox, leather briefcase (Sandra’s), dining room set, wireless phone; couch, chairs, low white table, two new dogs. {{Central portrait of family with all possessions from original Material World project is named: Cub.mw.01.xxs.}}
copyright: 2001 Peter Menzel , www.menzelphoto.com
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Mal_mw2_1_120_xs.jpg - ID: 10668
created: 2007-09-17T10:58:27
Mal.mw2.1.120.xsFrom coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. The Natomo family, with the few new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait. Left to right, front row: Fourou (12, daughter of Fatoumata and Soumana); Mamadou (10, son of Pama and Soumana); Fatoumata (10, daughter of Fatoumata and Soumana); Mama (8, son of Fatoumata and Soumana); Kansy (4, son of Fatoumata and Soumana). left to right, back row: Soumana Natomo (46, husband of Pama and Fatoumata); Pama Kondo, 35, wife of Soumana and co-wife of Fatoumata Toure); Mama, (13, son of Pama and Soumana); Kontie (16, son of Pama and Soumana); and Pai (18, daughter of Pama and Soumana); Fatoumata, (33, wife of Soumana and co-wife of Pama) holding Tena (4 months, daughter of Fatoumata and Soumana). In some big picture photos you can see three extended family members on the ground below: Kadia Foune who is Soumana’s sister-in-law and currently living with the family along with her two children, Mariyam, 8, and Kontie, 2, while her husband works in Ivory Coast). New Possessions: The family’s only new material possessions since 1993 are a few pieces of clothing, arranged in front of them on the roof of their earthen house; a plastic teapot, and a new storage room in the market area. Part of the courtyard has been repaired and replastered in the years since the first big picture. {{Since the coverage of the Natomo family for Material World: A Global Family Portrait in 1993, Soumana Natomo has gained greater importance in the community administration due in large part to his quiet demeanor and gentle disposition—good qualities for an arbiter of village affairs. Pama Kondo, his first wife, is a grain trader alongside of Soumana and they have built this into a business that supports the family of 15 people (including three extended family members who are now living wit
copyright: 2001 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com
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Mal_mw2_757_xs.jpg - ID: 10627
created: 2007-09-17T11:00:05
Mal.mw2.757.xsFrom coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. The Natomo family, with the few new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait. Left to right, front row: Fourou (12, daughter of Fatoumata and Soumana); Mamadou (10, son of Pama and Soumana); Fatoumata (10, daughter of Fatoumata and Soumana); Mama (8, son of Fatoumata and Soumana); Kansy (4, son of Fatoumata and Soumana). left to right, back row: Soumana Natomo (46, husband of Pama and Fatoumata); Pama Kondo, 35, wife of Soumana and co-wife of Fatoumata Toure); Mama, (13, son of Pama and Soumana); Kontie (16, son of Pama and Soumana); and Pai (18, daughter of Pama and Soumana); Fatoumata, (33, wife of Soumana and co-wife of Pama) holding Tena (4 months, daughter of Fatoumata and Soumana). In some big picture photos you can see three extended family members on the ground below: Kadia Foune who is Soumana’s sister-in-law and currently living with the family along with her two children, Mariyam, 8, and Kontie, 2, while her husband works in Ivory Coast). New Possessions: The family’s only new material possessions since 1993 are a few pieces of clothing, arranged in front of them on the roof of their earthen house; a plastic teapot, and a new storage room in the market area. Part of the courtyard has been repaired and replastered in the years since the first big picture. {{Since the coverage of the Natomo family for Material World: A Global Family Portrait in 1993, Soumana Natomo has gained greater importance in the community administration due in large part to his quiet demeanor and gentle disposition—good qualities for an arbiter of village affairs. Pama Kondo, his first wife, is a grain trader alongside of Soumana and they have built this into a business that supports the family of 15 people (including three extended family members who are now living with
copyright: 2001 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com
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Saf_mw_01a_xxs.jpg - ID: 10825
created: 2007-09-17T11:14:11
Saf.mw.01a.xxs The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions. {{Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister).}}
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Jap_mw2_20_120_xs.jpg - ID: 10798
created: 2007-09-17T10:53:45
Jap.mw2.20.120.xsFrom coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001. The Ukita family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait. Left to right: Mio Ukita (17, daughter); Sayo Ukita (mother and wife); Maya Ukita (14, daughter); and Kazuo Ukita (father and husband) New possessions include: 2 single beds from Sayo and Kazuo’s room; blankets and sheets; washing machine, rice cooker, electric water pot, cordless phone, vacuum cleaner, gas stove; table, porcelain elephant, globe, 3 clocks, teapot, white ware pottery, selection of books, VCR, hula hoop, massage chair, Othello game, car, new desk, 2 CD players, many CD’s, well over one hundred comic books, Walkman, stuffed animals, two mobile phones, plastic organizer drawers, futon, chair, clothes valet, computer, full length mirror, vanity and stool, exercise stepper, rocking chair, air cleaner. {{Sayo Ukita and her husband Kazuo continue to live in the manicured suburb of northwest Tokyo called Kodaira City. Their daughter Mio is a first year university student, concentrating on biology (her first field experience, in May, was milking a cow). Daughter Maya, 14, attends 8th grade and still plays the piano. Neither girl swims competitively any longer. The family has replaced a great deal of their belongings since the original big picture was taken, hence the large number of items in the Material World 2001 big picture. Their dog Izumaru has died, but they did not replace him. Mio has a new laptop for school, and both girls have mobile phones. The Nintendo game player is still hooked up to the family’s extra television set in the dining room, but it is not used as often as it had been when the girls were younger. The parents have a television in their bedroom that Kazuo watched when he was bedridden with a back ailment and a problem with his pancreas, and
copyright: 2001 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com

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Jap_mw_718_xs.jpg - ID: 10784
created: 2007-09-17T10:57:23
Jap.mw.718.xsPeter Menzel has a meal with the Ukita children in their Kodaira City home during the week he spent with them to shoot the family for the Material World book. Japan. Material World Project. Food. Children, Child. {{The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City. Kazuo is a salary man who works in a book warehouse. His father is a doctor who helped them to buy their quiet suburban home. Sayo was a bookstore clerk before marriage and is now a homemaker. Family members are: Kazuo Ukita (45, father); Sayo Ukita (43, mother); Mio Ukita (9, daughter); Maya Ukita (6, daughter). (From Peter Menzel’s Material World: A Global Family Portrait Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions).}}
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Jap_mw_01_xxs.jpg - ID: 10782
created: 2007-09-17T10:54:02
Jap.mw.01.xxs The Ukita Family in front of their home with all of their possessions, Tokyo, Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 48-49. {{Family members are: Kazuo Ukita (45, father); Sayo Ukita (43, mother); Mio Ukita (9, daughter); Maya Ukita (6, daughter).}} From Peter Menzel’s Material World: A Global Family Portrait Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions).
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Jap_mw_17_xs.jpg - ID: 10776
created: 2007-09-17T10:54:51
Jap.mw.17.xsThe Ukita family’s possessions displayed in front of their house before the family photograph for the Material World project. The family is situated on the two balconies of the upstairs bedrooms for this preliminary photograph. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo, Japan, called Kodaira City. Material World Project. {{Kazuo is a salary man who works in a book warehouse. His father is a doctor who helped them to buy their quiet suburban home. Sayo was a bookstore clerk before marriage and is now a homemaker. Family members are: Kazuo Ukita (45, father); Sayo Ukita (43, mother); Mio Ukita (9, daughter); Maya Ukita (6, daughter). (From Peter Menzel’s Material World: A Global Family Portrait Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions).}}
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Jap_mw_16_xs.jpg - ID: 10765
created: 2007-09-17T10:54:45
Jap.mw.16.xsSayo Ukita cleans up the house while her daughters are at school and husband is at work. Japan. Material World Project. Work. {{The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City. Kazuo is a salary man who works in a book warehouse. His father is a doctor who helped them to buy their quiet suburban home. Sayo was a bookstore clerk before marriage and is now a homemaker. Family members are: Kazuo Ukita (45, father); Sayo Ukita (43, mother); Mio Ukita (9, daughter); Maya Ukita (6, daughter). (From Peter Menzel’s Material World: A Global Family Portrait Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions).
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Mex_mw_01_xxs.jpg - ID: 10763
created: 2007-09-17T11:09:06
Mex.mw.01.xxs The Castillo Balderas family of Guadalajara, Mexico, outside their home with all of their possessions. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 144-145. Ambrosio Castillo Cerda, 29, Carmen Balderas de Castillo, 25, Cruz, 10, Nayalit, 8, Brenda, 7, Marco Antonio, 5. From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions. {{Formerly image number MexicoMWBPxs.tif. Stubbs}}
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Cub_mw_01_xxs.jpg - ID: 10692
created: 2007-09-17T10:49:44
Cub.mw.01.xxs The Costa Family outside their home with all of their possessions, Havana, Cuba. Published in the book Material World, pages 106-107. {{Family members are: Euripides Costa Cairo, Father, 75, Angelina Aluis Gallert, mother, 65; Eulina Costa Aluis, 35, daughter of Angelina. Iris Garcia Costa, Eulina’s daughter, 8; Jesus Javier Garcia Costa, Eulina’s son, 8; Montecristi Garcia Moreira, Eulina’s husband, 40; Sandra Reymond Mundi, Ramon’s wife, 31. Ramon Costa Aluis, son of Angelina, 32; Lisandra Costa Reymond, Sandra’s daughter, 9. }} From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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created: 2005-09-15T13:05:30
GBR.MWdrv05.131.xrwPeter Menzel, creator and chief photographer of the Material World Project of 1994 (at left), is photographed with one of the original Material World Project photographers, David Reed (at right), and his subjects (and friends)—Richard and Fenella Hodson of Godalming, England in front of their home. The Hodson family was photographed by David Reed with all of its possessions outside this house for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
copyright: 2005 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com
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created: 2005-09-15T11:49:22
GBR.MWdrv05.058.xrwOne of the original Material World Project photographers, David Reed, is photographed with his subjects (and friends)—Richard and Fenella Hodson of Godalming, England. Revisit with the Material World Project family in Great Britain, 2005. The Hodson family was photographed by David Reed with all of its possessions outside their house for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
copyright: 2005 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com
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Mal_mw_01_xxs.jpg - ID: 10592
created: 2007-09-17T11:01:48
Mal.mw.01.xxsThe Natomo family with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Published in Material World, page 14. {{The Natomo family (Soumana Natomo, his two wives—Pama Kondo and Fatoumata Toure—and 7 children) lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. They have separate households but share meals in the courtyard of Pama’s house. The older children help care for the younger children and help with sweeping the mud brick courtyard, and dish washing and clothes washing in the Niger River. }} Family members are: Soumana Natomo (39, father); Pama Kondo (28, first wife); Fatoumata Toure (26, second wife); Pai Natomo (11, daughter of Soumana and Pama); Kontie Natomo (9, son of Soumana and Pama); Mama Natomo (6, son of Soumana and Pama); Mamadou (3, son of Soumana and Pama); Toure Natomo (5, daughter of Soumana and Fatoumata); Fatoumata Natomo (3, daughter of Soumana and Fatoumata); Mama Natomo (1, son of Soumana and Fatoumata). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Tha_mw_9_xxs.jpg - ID: 10459
created: 2007-09-17T11:21:22
Tha.mw.9.xxs After the death of a 72-year old man who lived across the road from the Khuenkaew family of the Material World Project, his family followed Thai tradition and bought a castle-like, wood-and-crepe paper funeral bier and placed the body on top. Then the village held a two-day wake, complete with tents, music, gambling, and outdoor barbecues. Gifts were piled atop the casket. Afterward, the men carried the bier on long bamboo poles to the cemetery. The family posed for photographs in front of the bier, said good-bye to the dead man, and left the cemetary-keeper to burn the remains. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait. pages 86 & 87. Thailand. {{The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. They are a farming family that grows rice for personal use, and to sell for income. Buaphet’s mother gave them the land on which to build their home. She and other family members live close by.Family members are: Boontham Khuenkaew (39, father); Buaphet Khuenkaew (35, mother); Jeeraporn Khuenkaew (14, daughter); Visith Khuenkaew (9, son); Vichai Sadub (Dang) (37, Buaphet’s brother). (From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions).}}
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Tha_mw_3_xxs.jpg - ID: 10453
created: 2007-09-17T11:18:55
Tha.mw.3.xxsThe lives of the majority of Thai people are dominated by traditional agricultural rhythms and the sounds of Buddhist rituals at the nearby temple. In homes across the country the most important image is Buddha. The image shown here is a bas-relief of Buddha at the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. Religion. Published in Material World page 83. (From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions).
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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USA_mw_01_xxs.jpg - ID: 10437
created: 2007-09-17T11:24:11
USA.mw.01.xxs The Skeen family of Pearland, Texas, outside their home with all of their possessions. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 136-137. Ricky Skeen, 36, and his wife Pattie Skeen, 34, with their two children, Michael, 7 and Julie, 10. Rick is a lineman for a telephone company, and Pattie is a part-time teacher. From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions. {{Formerly image number USAMWBPxs.tif. Stubbs}}
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
source: H.B. Stubbs drum scan for GM exh

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Bhu_mw_747_120_xxs.jpg - ID: 10368
created: 2007-09-17T10:45:54
Bhu.mw.747.xxsPhotographer Peter Menzel poses with Buddhist Monks in Shingkhey, Bhutan, while on assignment shooting for the Material World Project. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, back cover, inside flap.{{The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and her daughter Sangay work as partners—they take turns caring for the children and working in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Sangay’s husband Sangay Kandu does the plowing of the family fields but Sangay and Nalim do the planting and harvesting. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they can—often the payment is made in grain and mustard oil. Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village.Family members are: Namgay (50, family patriarch and husband of Nalim), Nalim (47, family matriarch and wife of Namgay), Sangay, (29, daughter of Nalim and Namgay and wife of Sangay Kandu), Sangay Kandu (33, husband of Sangay), Choeden (9, daughter of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Chato Namgay (7, son of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Sangay Zam (5, daughter of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Chato Geltshin (3, son of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Tandin Geltshin (2, son of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Kinley Dorji, (61, unmarried brother of Nalim). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions. }}
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Bhu_mw_07_xxs.jpg - ID: 10296
created: 2007-09-17T10:40:01
Bhu.mw.07.xxsEspecially fond of the children, Uncle Kinley Dorji (seated at right) has given up marriage to help with childcare in his sister Nalim's house. A typical task: feeding a weekend breakfast of sweet, thick rice soup to Tandin Geltshin, one of the two-year-olds. His namesake and nephew, Kinley (standing at left) observes the jumble of children from the lofty distance of his 17 years. A student at a boarding school an hour's walk away, he is home only for weekends. Namgay and Nalim’s family lives in Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages76-77.{{The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and her daughter Sangay work as partners—they take turns caring for the children and working in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Sangay’s husband Sangay Kandu does the plowing of the family fields but Sangay and Nalim do the planting and harvesting. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they can—often the payment is made in grain and mustard oil. Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village.Family members are: Namgay (50, family patriarch and husband of Nalim), Nalim (47, family matriarch and wife of Namgay), Sangay, (29, daughter of Nalim and Namgay and wife of Sangay Kandu), Sangay Kandu (33, husband of Sangay), Choeden (9, daughter of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Chato Namgay (7, son of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Sangay Zam (5, daughter of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Chato Geltshin (3, son of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Tandin Geltshin (2, son of Sangay Kandu and Sangay), Kinley Dorji, (61, unmarried brother of Nalim). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessi
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Saf_mw_712_xs.jpg - ID: 10809
created: 2007-09-17T11:17:14
Saf.mw.712.xsRain delay during the shooting of the Material World big picture in South Africa. The Qampie family had to cover all their possessions, which had already been moved outside, during the brief but fierce thunderstorm that swept across Soweto. An hour later Peter Menzel took the photo that is in the book—Material World: A Global Family Portrait. {{The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Poppy works for a jobs training company in downtown Joberg. Simon doesn’t have steady work but picks up odd jobs here and there as he can. They don’t feel safe in their neighborhood and try to have everyone home behind locked doors and windows before nightfall to guard against violence. Family members are: Simon Qampie (48, father); Poppy Nosizwe Qampie (36, mother); Pearl Qampie (14 daughter); Irene Qampie (11, daughter); George (4, son); Mateo (2, son); Leah Nosizwe (64, Poppy’s mother); Anna (18, Poppy’s sister). From Peter Menzel’s Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.}}
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Jap_mw_20_xxs.jpg - ID: 10788
created: 2007-09-17T10:55:03
Jap.mw.20.xxsKazuo Ukita’s breakfast of coffee, cigarettes and television before work. There is a vitamin commercial on the TV. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, Televisions of the World page 36. Food. {{The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City. Kazuo is a salary man who works in a book warehouse. His father is a doctor who helped them to buy their quiet suburban home. Sayo was a bookstore clerk before marriage and is now a homemaker. Family members are: Kazuo Ukita (45, father); Sayo Ukita (43, mother); Mio Ukita (9, daughter); Maya Ukita (6, daughter). (From Peter Menzel’s Material World: A Global Family Portrait Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions).}}
copyright: 1994 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com Material World
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Mon_mw2_33_120_xs.jpg - ID: 10752
created: 2007-09-17T11:09:31
Mon.mw2.33.120.xsFrom coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2001. The Batsuuri family, with whatever new possessions (only a color TV set) they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait. Regzen Batsuuri, father, 44; Oyuntsetseg, mother, 38; Batbileg, son, 12; Khorloo, daughter, 17.{{Mongolia’s financial fortunes were tied to the Soviet Union; and with the demise of that union in the late 80’s Mongolia struggled to recreate itself in the 90’s with a market economy. The Batsuuri family, living in a ger [a round felt and canvas covered portable structure, sometimes called a yurt] on the outskirts of the city, took advantage of the new opportunities of a more permissive atmosphere. Batsuuri built a house next to the ger with materials stockpiled over a number of years, and his wife Oyuntsetseg Lhakamsuren opened a small pharmacy with her former colleagues from the state-run pharmacy where she had worked before privatization. It was a heady time for the family whose extended family also lived with them in the house/ger compound at the edge of the city. In 1995, Oyuntsetseg was excited about the future, and hoped to move into an apartment with running water. In the late 90’s, she got her wish, although not happily. She and her co-workers had taken a loan to help support their private pharmacy; they borrowed too much and didn’t understand the concept of compound interest. The debt built up, and when they couldn’t pay, Oyuntsetseg’s family lost everything they had accumulated, including their ger and their house. The family of four now lives in the small apartment they dreamed of, but it belongs to Tanya, an 83-year-old Russian immigrant, who lives there, and who rents them one room. Oyuntsetseg runs a 24-hour pharmacy in another rented room nearby. Central portrait of family with all possessions from original Material
copyright: 2001 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com
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Mon_mw2_122_xs.jpg - ID: 10741
created: 2007-09-17T11:09:25
Mon.mw2.122.xsFrom coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2001. The Batsuuri family, with whatever new possessions (only a color TV set) they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait. Regzen Batsuuri, father, 44; Oyuntsetseg, mother, 38; Batbileg, son, 12; Khorloo, daughter, 17.{{Mongolia’s financial fortunes were tied to the Soviet Union; and with the demise of that union in the late 80’s Mongolia struggled to recreate itself in the 90’s with a market economy. The Batsuuri family, living in a ger [a round felt and canvas covered portable structure, sometimes called a yurt] on the outskirts of the city, took advantage of the new opportunities of a more permissive atmosphere. Batsuuri built a house next to the ger with materials stockpiled over a number of years, and his wife Oyuntsetseg Lhakamsuren opened a small pharmacy with her former colleagues from the state-run pharmacy where she had worked before privatization. It was a heady time for the family whose extended family also lived with them in the house/ger compound at the edge of the city. In 1995, Oyuntsetseg was excited about the future, and hoped to move into an apartment with running water. In the late 90’s, she got her wish, although not happily. She and her co-workers had taken a loan to help support their private pharmacy; they borrowed too much and didn’t understand the concept of compound interest. The debt built up, and when they couldn’t pay, Oyuntsetseg’s family lost everything they had accumulated, including their ger and their house. The family of four now lives in the small apartment they dreamed of, but it belongs to Tanya an 83-year-old Russian immigrant, who lives there, and who rents them one room. Oyuntsetseg runs a 24-hour pharmacy in another rented room nearby. Central portrait of family with all possessions from original Material Worl
copyright: 2001 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com
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Mon_mw2_35_xs.jpg - ID: 10726
created: 2007-09-17T11:09:38
Mon.mw2.35.xsFrom coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2001. The Batsuuri family, with whatever new possessions (only a color TV set) they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait. Regzen Batsuuri, father, 44; Oyuntsetseg, mother, 38; Batbileg, son, 12; Khorloo, daughter, 17.{{Mongolia’s financial fortunes were tied to the Soviet Union; and with the demise of that union in the late 80’s Mongolia struggled to recreate itself in the 90’s with a market economy. The Batsuuri family, living in a ger [a round felt and canvas covered portable structure, sometimes called a yurt] on the outskirts of the city, took advantage of the new opportunities of a more permissive atmosphere. Batsuuri built a house next to the ger with materials stockpiled over a number of years, and his wife Oyuntsetseg Lhakamsuren opened a small pharmacy with her former colleagues from the state-run pharmacy where she had worked before privatization. It was a heady time for the family whose extended family also lived with them in the house/ger compound at the edge of the city. In 1995, Oyuntsetseg was excited about the future, and hoped to move into an apartment with running water. In the late 90’s, she got her wish, although not happily. She and her co-workers had taken a loan to help support their private pharmacy; they borrowed too much and didn’t understand the concept of compound interest. The debt built up, and when they couldn’t pay, Oyuntsetseg’s family lost everything they had accumulated, including their ger and their house. The family of four now lives in the small apartment they dreamed of, but it belongs to Tanya, an 83-year-old Russian immigrant, who lives there, and who rents them one room. Oyuntsetseg runs a 24-hour pharmacy in another rented room nearby. Central portrait of family with all possessions from original Material Worl
copyright: 2001 Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com
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