When I saw this couple it immediately made me stop and photograph them. Scenes like this are filled with tragedy, despair, hope and routine. Make a living any way you can regardless of your situation. They are street performers.

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Representatives from Turner Construction Company make a donation of $5,000 to Safe Harbor women's shelter during the topping off ceremony for the Watt Family Innovation Center on Clemson University. (Photo by Ken Scar)

There was road construction outside my office today. The least I could do was to take a few photos!

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people working hard

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Some construction gets done at night in Japan.

Construction work at Menin, Belgium, during World War I. In the distance the stripped landscape is visible. A large crater dominates the front of the photograph, filled with wet, churned mud. Teams of men work in a line in the centre carrying supplies with which to lay new road.

[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE - Constructing the road to Menin.']

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One of a series of commemorative plaques at the Edison Riverwalk near the Blue Water Bridge. This one is from construction workers at the bridge,

Griffin Dewatering Field Crew preparing pipes for well installation. For more information on Dewatering or groundwater control please call 713-676-8000 or visit: www.griffindewatering.com

What's that down on the street?

The SBC library patio, newly built, in fall 2013.

St Thomas Street, London SE1

Construction site manager. Kyoto, Japan.

Country : Japan

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Cebu, Philippines

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Playa del Carmen

I remember these guys as being Irish....might just have been 1970 but most likely 1968

Nothing sells a Krunch Bar better than a filthy construction worker with a moustache.

Thanksgiving lunch with the staffs, farmers, construction workers

Construction Worker . First andL Streets . NW WDC . Thursday, 9 June 2005

Quote taken and translated from Rabindranath Tagore's dance-drama, CHITRANGADA: nohi debi, nohi shammanya nari".

Men At Work . Logan Circle . 14/Q . NW . WDC . Tuesday afternoon, 4 October 2005

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Cityscape, Architectural and Industrial Series

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Taken on Yonge St. just south of Bloor.

Shanghai, China, 2007

Construction worker . Church Street near 14th Street . NW WDC . Thursday, 7 July 2005

Logan Circle series

Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography

Thanksgiving lunch with the staffs, farmers, construction workers

A construction worker taking a break in the shade. Thats cement splattered on the wall.These are the men behind all the development in Oman.

Muttrah fish market - Muscat/ Oman

A couple of construction workers in Japanese Tobi work pants.

Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam - inspired by a 1932 photo. I think this was down somewhere around Ground Zero, but can't remember exactly where.