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© 2002 John Stanmeyer from a Day in the Life of Africa
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| Balancing a tub of fresh-caught fish on her head, a woman in Tanji, Gambia, wades ashore after meeting the village boats at dawn. Women in Tanji haul the loaded tubs - which can weigh up to 100 pounds - back to the beach, where the fish sell for around five U.S. dollars each.
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|  | | | American/Hong Kong A fashion photographer in Milan during the 1980s with magazines such as Interview and Harpers Bazaar, Stanmeyer started working as a photojournalist at a local Florida newspaper in 1989 while refurbishing a wooden ketch sailboat. Associated with the Saba agency until 2000, Stanmeyer is a founding member of VII and has been a contract photographer with Time since 1998. A World Press Photo award winner, he is currently working on a book about AIDS in Asia with his wife, a writer. | | | | | | | 
