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Migrant workers playing cards while waiting to travel downstream, hopefully to work and a better future. Chaotianmen Docks, Chongqing 2000 ©Ingrid Booz Morejohn

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Garbage collector and recycler, China ©Ingrid Booz Morejohn

The Knife Sharpener

Chengdu 090219 ©Ingrid Booz Morejohn

The street we live on is full of wonders. It's not particularly beautiful, it's actually quite ugly. But local life here is rich. Hardly a day passes without something interesting happening, and if you are content with experiencing the little things in life you will not be disappointed. On Thursday the itinerant Knife Sharpener set up office outside the front gate. He charges 2 yuan (c:a 2 kr) per knife and has all his tools with him in little baskets and bags carried in his three-wheeled bicycle cart. He has several whetstones of varying surface texture and coarseness at his disposal and little sponges and water to clean off the blade surface. He spent 30 minutes sharpening six of my knifes of different sizes, now they cut as swift and deep as a cruel word from a loved one.

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Coal worker along Yangtse River, Fengjie, Sichuan ©Ingrid Booz Morejohn