Andy Sands / German wasp (Vespula germanica) worker carrying rubbish, flying out of nest in air brick, Hertfordshire, England, UK. July

Ashley Cooper / Nepalese woman crushing stone with a hammer, Himalayan foothills, Nepal. January 2013.

Ashley Cooper / A Nepalese woman crushing stone with a hammer, Himalayan foothills, Nepal. January 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Jack up barge, The Goliath lifting a 320 tonne transition piece into place on the Walney Offshore windfarm project, off Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, UK. July 2011

Ashley Cooper / Workers washing the heliostats to maximise reflective power at the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Power Plant, the largest solar thermal plant in the world. It covers 4,000 acres of desert and produce 392 meg...

Ashley Cooper / Workers washing the heliostats to maximise reflective power at the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Power Plant, the largest solar thermal plant in the world. It covers 4,000 acres of desert and produce 392 meg...

Jeff Rotman / Peter Kass of John's Bay Boats, still builds some of the finest wooden lobster boats. South Bristol, Maine, USA, January 2017. Model released.

Tom Gilks / Economic migrant from rural areas working on construction site, Nairobi, Kenya, November 2013.

Tom Gilks / Economic migrant from rural areas working on construction site, Nairobi, Kenya, November 2013.

Tom Gilks / Economic migrants from rural areas working on construction site, Nairobi, Kenya, November 2013.

Tom Gilks / Economic migrants from rural areas working on construction site, Nairobi, Kenya, November 2013.

Martin Gabriel / Sur, a city at the coast of Oman, with mosques and a traditional dock for the construction of wooden boats, Sultanate of Oman, February.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / A worker using a portable steam production unit to warm the ground during winter construction of a harbour near Sabetta, South Tambey Gas field, Yamal, Siberia, Russia. February 2014.

Onne van der Wal / Worker in shipyard cutting metal with acetelene torch.

Onne van der Wal / Worker in shipyard cutting metal with acetelene torch.

Onne van der Wal / Worker in shipyard cuts metal with acetelene torch

Jim Brandenburg / Bamboo (Dendrocalamus sp) scaffolding, assembled by construction workers, used in building skyscrapers, Hong Kong, China

Neil Aldridge / Conversion of traditional stone-walled barns, here earmarked for development, into countryside homes, Cornwall, England. December.

Neil Challis / Weaver ant (Oecophylla sp.) workers using larval silk to construct the nest, Western Thailand.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Kosta Serotetto, labourer working in Yar-Sale, Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia. 2021. Kosta was born into a family of reindeer herders in 1987. After school he worked as a reindeer herder, before giving up...

Ingo Arndt / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) worker bees building a queen brood cell (early stage of construction) inside a nest cavity, Germany. August.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Woman laying bricks for car park,.Guangdong province, China. November 2015.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Shipyard for building and renovation traditional wooden fishing boats, in the fishing harbour of Wai Luo Gang, Guangdong province, China November 2015.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Shipyard for building and renovation traditional wooden fishing boats, in the fishing harbour of Wai Luo Gang, Guangdong province, China November 2015.

Wendy Shattil / Border wall constuction through the Sonoran Desert. View from Sonoyta, Mexico towards Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, USA. November 2019.

Wendy Shattil / Border wall construction, view from Sonoyta, Mexico towards Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, USA. November 2019.