More than 200 boys work daily 8-hour shifts in an airless, makeshift aluminum pot factory in the City of the Dead. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums of Cairo’s City of the Dead.

More than 200 boys work daily 8-hour shifts in an airless, makeshift aluminum pot factory in the City of the Dead. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums of Cairo’s City of the Dead.

Image: 8 3/8 x 12 7/16 in. (21.3 x 31.6 cm)
Paper: 11 x 13 15/16 in. (27.9 x 35.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Ed Kashi, 2006
Accession No. 2006.40.21