[Cookie the Chimpanzee with boy on a tricycle, Bronx Zoo, New York]

[Vishniac's mother Manya at the dinner table, Nice, France]

[Operatic mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel, New York]

[Shoe workshop, Eastern Europe]

The fields along the Yangtze River are polluted by sewage from the factories of the Maanshan Industrial Park, Anhui Province

A family of five children emigrated to Inner Mongolia from Xiji County in nearby Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to find work in the Heilonggui Industrial District. The eldest child is 9, the youngest is less than two

Kinny Mattia tries to feel the morning light. "Milton Margai" is the only school for the blind in Sierra Leone. Approx. 85 children, 4 to 18 yrs old, study and live here. In 1998, when RUF-rebels attacked Freetown, the school had to be evacuated. In

Kinny Mattia plays the piano. Milton Margai School for the Blind. Children learn to play music: drums, piano, flute, and they learn singing. As street musicians, some children could make a small living for themselves.