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November 25, 2001

 

Photo: Zaire Peasants

Zaire Peasants, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1983

Photograph by James P. Blair

Peasants carry wood from a rain forest 85 kilometers (53 miles) southeast of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [then called Zaire], to a charcoal processing plant.

(Photograph taken on assignment for, but not published in, "Rain Forests," January 1983, National Geographic magazine)

 

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