This man is a gas lamp engineer from London and, unfortunately his job will slowly disappear. So, before May Day we want to honor the work of men and women around the globe whose jobs are becoming increasingly rare as technology transforms societies. Let us know what you think!
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Neon sign maker, Hong Kong
Wu Chi-kai is one of the last remaining craftsmen of his kind in Hong Kong, a city where darkness never really falls thanks to the 24-hour glow of a myriad lights
Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images
Gramophone salesman, New Delhi, India
Syed Zafar Shah poses at his music store where he sells antique gramophones and vinyl records in the old quarter of the city
Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
Laundry worker, Quito, Ecuador
Delia Veloz is pictured next to clothes drying at the municipal laundry of the Ermita area of Quito. The 74-year-old has cleaned laundry for more than 50 years and earns about four dollars a day
Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images
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
Shorthand teacher, Faridabad, India
Surbir Singh at a stenography center surrounded by his students
Photograph: Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images
Rickshaw puller, Kolkata, India
Mohammad Ashgar with his rickshaw in Kolkata, one of the last major cities in India yet to outlaw pulled rickshaws. The local pullers’ union puts the number who ply the trade in the city at 24,000 and has organised mass protests against moves to stamp out the practice
Photograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images
Stonecutter, Ojojona, Honduras
Jose Diaz with his tools near Tegucigalpa
Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images
Elevator operator, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lizie da Silva at the Bank of Brazil Cultural Center in central Rio. The 49-year-old has been an elevator operator since 1997
Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images
Gnomonist, Saluzzo, Italy
Fabio Garnero is one of the last gnomonists in Italy. He uses traditional techniques to calculate and draw sundials on buildings. Here he is pictured working on a renaissance mansion near Turin
Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images
Ear cleaner, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mohammad Joynal. Commercially produced cotton buds are destroying the livelihoods of ear cleaners in Bangladesh, one of the signature features of street life in the country
Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images