Travel challenges our pre-conceptions about jobs. These photographs strip all stereotypes about why and how we work.

The cinnamon peeler, gifted with a rare and difficult skill, yet battling to keep his job as the industry collapses amid the global meltdown and ailing Sri Lankan economy. The Chinese girls representing their country as they award medals to Olympic game winners. The old metal forger who provides his trade on an isolated Russian roadside be it in scorching heat or chilling winds.

In these places work becomes more than a way to earn money. It becomes a poster for culture and pride.