Photographer Earl Dotter has spent more than half of his life documenting workers in the most hazardous conditions.

Client work

Picador Minero

This man works tirelessly in the mine to provide for his family. He's all dirty mining coal. Sweat flows from him, and his face looks tired.

Coal miner... this face tells such a story. -- Use this as a visual analysis assignment with Industrial Revolution, and then return to it when we read October Sky? (image only)

There wasn't a dry eye at Kellingley Colliery, in North Yorkshire, and there was mixed emotions. The 450 miners worked their final hours, bringing an end to deep coal mining in the UK.

Pokhara, Nepal, 1985 Jaipur, India, 1982 Sylhet, Bangladesh, 1983 Goa, India, 1983 10:30am, September 11, NY, USA, 2001 Times Square, New York, USA, 1994 Rome, Italy, 1984 Myanmar (Burma), 2011 Zagreb, Croatia, 1989 Marseille, France, 1988 Mumbai, India, 1996 Angkor Thom, Cambodia, 1998 Myanmar…

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