Color Picture, 3rd prize
Mirella Ricciardi
01 January, 1980
Digging for gold: A digger climbs out of a deep excavation with a bag of dirt he delivers to panners who extract the gold. Diggers earn 25 US$ a day -five times an average laborer's wage in Brazil- and panners make as much as 50 US$ a day.
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