29 November 2007

New York City’s manhole covers forged barefoot in India

“It turns out that the manhole covers that are on literally every block in the city [of New York] are made in a remote part of India, just outside Calcutta. Photojournalist J. Adam Huggins found the foundry and took some dark and grizzly shots of the hard, manual labor involved in making these overlooked – but vital – street castings.”

– Pauline Millard, reporting in Editor & Publisher, 27 Nov 2007

Read the full story and see the pictures here (from The New York Times).

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