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Taj Mahal Workers, Agra, India, 1996

Workers gathering grain in view of the Taj Mahal, which was built in the mid-1600s as a tomb for Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan's wife Mumtaz Mahal. Later he was buried beside her.

(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Steve McCurry