© 2002 Dilip Mehta from a Day in the Life of Africa
Surrounded by stacks of aish - the Arabic word for both "humanity" and "bread" - a baker breaks for a smoke in Mena, an Egyptian village near the great pyramids. One of the world's most ancient forms of bread, aish has been baked in Egypt for at least 1,500 years.


Indian/New Delhi

A member of Contact Press Images, Mehta has covered the Bhopal gas tragedy, as well as political and social developments in India, Pakistan, America, Russia, China and a host of other countries. His pictorial essays have appeared in magazines such as Time, National Geographic, Newsweek, GEO, Figaro and The New York Times, among others. He is currently producing an in-depth essay in India for both the German and French editions of GEO.