In Photos: Vanishing Jobs Around the World

DVD shopkeeper, Sydney, Australia

Geoffrey Hooper, 71, runs one of the city’s last DVD stores
Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images

Clock-keeper

Montevideo , UruguayAbdel Ghaffar is photographed in the clock tower of the city’s cathedral
Photograph: Pablo Porciuncula Brune/AFP/Getty Images

Umbrella repair shop, Belgrade, Serbia

Tatjana Zivkovic’s store on Visnjiceva Street has been making and repairing brollies for decades
Photograph: Andrej Isakovic/AFP/Getty Images