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A miner chisels out chunks of sulphur as he readies his basket to carry out of the bowels of the Ijen volcano. Miners carried average 70 kilo loads one kilometre up and out of the volcano and then three kilometres down to a weigh station further down the mountain. Each miner undertook an average of two carries per day and received payment of around US$0.09 per kilogram carried. This miner can be seen chewing on his scarf to help prevent the ingress of sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide into his body. Ijen volcano, Indonesia, 2012. A photographer has travelled the globe to capture people working in the world's most extreme conditions – with some risking their lives for a wage of less than $1 a day. Photographer Hugh Brown has spent more than eight years uncovering those who are exposed to the harshest and most dangerous ways of making a living. Up to 30 million people worldwide are forced to work in crippling conditions – from deep within underground mines, on the top of mountains and the side of sheer cliff-faces. The images have now been documented in a thought-provoking project named “The Cruellest Earth”, and will also be turned into a photographic art book. (Photo by Hugh Brown/South West News Service)
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