Simple Day

A simple day in the life...

Often in the Big Picture we feature "slice of life" photography originating from around the world, brought to us by photographers based in those countries who work for the Associated Press, Reuters and Getty Images. The photographs are often simple and show daily life in many places that we might not be able to experience in any other way except through those photographers' documentation. The images themselves are somewhat universal - they show us where people live and how people live, sometimes not so differently than we do ourselves. -- Paula Nelson.

Three-year-old Nadia Nassrallah eats her breakfast in from of her home in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Oct. 4, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

An Afghan carpet seller displays a handmade rug bearing the image of US President Barack Obama inside his shop in Kabul, Afghanistan. The shop owner said the he spent a year sewing the carpet and that it is not for sale. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

Afghan refugee Lubna neematuallah cares for her brother Arman in a slum near Islamabad, Pakistan, Oct. 9, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

An Indian rag picker carries a sack of trash collected from the beach along the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India, Sept. 26, 2011. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press)

Three-year-old Afghan refugee Nageen Jihandad plays with her doll in a slum near Islamabad, Pakistan, Sept. 28, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

A local artist, Grand Hughes, sits at his street stall in Napier, New Zealand, Sept. 25, 2011. (Junji Kurokawa/Associated Press)

Pakistani Anwar Ashian, 15, washes in a water reservoir on a roadside near Islamabad, Pakistan, Sept. 15, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

The Belchatow power plant, Sept. 28, 2011, in Belchatow, near Lodz central Poland. Poland's largest electricity producer PGE, started a new 858-megawatt generator earlier this year at its Elektrownia Belchatow coal-fired power plant, making it one of the largest in the world. (Darek Redos/AFP/Getty Images)

A boy dives into a swimming pool on Wazir Akbar Kahn hill in Kabul, Oct. 12, 2011. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)

Muskan, a female child of an Indian worker, is given a quick bath at a construction site in New Delhi, India. (Gurinder Osan/Associated Press)

Source : Boston.Com - Big Picture