[Grandmother and grandchildren in basement dwelling, Krochmalna Street, Warsaw]

Market day in the City of the Dead. In Cairo, refugees from the housing shortage have laid claim to the city's main cemetery. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums.

[Dancers Emily Frankel and Mark Ryder, New York]

[Men cleaning the western portal doors of Notre Dame, Paris]

[Roman Vishniac’s former home on Pariserstrasse, Wilmersdorf, Berlin]

[Postcard from Roman Vishniac in Warsaw to his daughter Mara in Riga]

A pole-vaulter in the 70+ category defies gravity at the 2001 Senior Olympics. In fifteen years, the Senior Olympics has grown from a modest experiment to a national phenomenon drawing more than 12,000 athletes in dozens of events.

Inmates at the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed facility take their twice-daily inhalation therapy to alleviate the suffering from emphysema.