{"id":61112,"date":"2024-01-12T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/11\/danger-and-dignity-in-some-of-the-worlds-vanishing-trades-a-photo-essay"},"modified":"2024-01-12T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:00:22","slug":"danger-and-dignity-in-some-of-the-worlds-vanishing-trades-a-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61112","title":{"rendered":"Danger and dignity in some of the world\u2019s vanishing trades \u2013 a photo essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Egypt to Bangladesh, photographer Lucien Mign\u00e9 has documented the work of marginalised groups whose livelihoods have remained largely untouched by the modernisation of work<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 All photographs by Lucien Mign\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>For a moment, the workers disappear in the clouds of dust that billow across the white limestone plains as the old circular saws they handle cut through rock in a deafening noise.<\/p>\n<p>Every day thousands of men and boys, some as young as 12, travel in the back of pickup trucks to the limestones quarries of Al-Minya, about 300km (186 miles) south of Cairo in Egypt. They slice the limestone into bricks by pushing the machines with saws across the lunar landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Workers cut limestone in the quarry in Al-Minya, Egypt<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/11\/danger-and-dignity-in-some-of-the-worlds-vanishing-trades-a-photo-essay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Egypt to Bangladesh, photographer Lucien Mign\u00e9 has documented the work of marginalised groups whose livelihoods have remained largely untouched by the modernisation of work\u2022 All photographs by Lucien Mign\u00e9For a moment, the workers disappear in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,403,2156,59,92,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-egypt","category-ethiopia","category-global-development","category-photography","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61113,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61112\/revisions\/61113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}