Fabric dyeing at one of the few remaining homes that have not outsourced to factories in the walled old city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, on July 9, 2023. The process requires several rounds of dyeing and drying and involves creating patterns by tying the fabric with string to restrict the colors.​​​​​​​

Dyes mix with wastewater in the gutter down the street from the house in the old city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, on July 9, 2023. The fabric makers described a designer brand's representatives once coming to buy their craft before stamping on their logo and marking the price up tenfold.

A dhobi, a traditional clothes washer, uses his feet to clean a batch of clothes from a factory at Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai, Maharashtra, on Aug. 15, 2023.

Skyscrapers rise above Dhbobi Ghat, a Mumbai neighborhood of approximately 2,000 clothes washers and their families, on Aug. 15, 2023. Tourists get an extensive view of the drying fabrics from a viewing deck off an overpass where children sell magnets and souvenirs.

Calendars hang in a storefront in the old city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on Aug. 13, 2023. Alleyways connecting pols, the city's historic quarters, hide behind doorways.

The entry room of an empty home in Procida, Italy, on April 21, 2023. The sleepy island of 10,000 was designated as Italy's 2022 Capital of Culture

Light on the waterfront of Procida, Italy, left, where Francesco Visaggio weaves a fishing net, right, on April 21, 2023.

 Diving into a 300-year-old stepwell after the police left for the afternoon in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, on Aug. 4, 2023.​​​​​​​

A swan grooms itself at Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, Germany, on July 3, 2024.

A passenger reclines in the front viewing room of a ferry traveling from Victoria, Canada to Port Angeles, Washington, on March 30, 2022. The Black Ball Ferry Line consists of a singular vessel repeatedly traversing the Straight of Juan de Fuca.

Outside a New York cafe on the morning of March 13, 2024.

Parris King-Levine in Newton, Iowa, on May 20, 2024.

A worshipper at Chiesa di San Gregorio Armeno in Naples, Italy, on March 31, 2023.

Lily Franck on Lake Pichola in Udaipur, Rajasthan, on Aug. 10, 2023.

Amy Schaffer on an underground lake in Bonne Terre, Missouri on April 8, 2024. The St. Joe Lead Company operated in the now-flooded mine until 1963.

Christine Oyalo at Tower Grove Park in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 29, 2019.

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