A woman carrying a basket of papayas while walking through a vegetable market in Bangkok, Thailand November 11, 2011. (Photo by Kerek Wongsa/Reuters)

A labourer carries a basket of bananas inside a wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Bengaluru, India, August 22, 2016. (Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/Reuters)

Vendors selling vegetables wait for customers under a flyover in the early morning in Ahmedabad, India on February 1, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)

Vendors wait for customers at a wholesale vegetable market in Dhaka on September 4, 2022. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)

A vendor sleeps as his son waits for customers at their roadside vegetable shop in New Delhi, February 12, 2019. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)

Kashmiri vegetable vendors assemble at a floating market in the interiors of the Dal Lake in Srinagar April 17, 2012. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)

A vendor sleeps at his vegetables shop at a main market in Colombo, Sri Lanka May 31, 2016. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)

Photographer Ma Hongjie has spent 11 years documenting families in various parts of China for his upcoming book The Family Belongings of Chinese People. Here: a couple with their belongings and vegetables in Hebei Huailai county. (Photo by Ma Hongjie)