America at work in amateur photos

This collection contains photographs of working people who were sent by photographers from different parts of the United States from Guam to Massachusetts, from Florida to California. The photographs highlight many types of employment and give an idea of what US citizens are doing in the 21st century.

(Total 37 photos)

1. Workers at Gardiner Farms in Bakersfield, California, shake hands on August 31, 2011. To their right, almonds are being cleaned and loaded. (© Matt Johnson)

2. A worker cleans the alley on Liberty Island against the backdrop of the skyscrapers of Manhattan, New York, May 18, 2011. (© Kamal Sellehuddin)

3. A gymnast exercises under the ceiling of a rented warehouse in Oakland, California on November 30, 2011. (© Matt Johnson)

4. Steam (© Charter Weeks)

5. A worker marks a rooster at JPS Farms in Center City, Minnesota, May 2011. (© Natalie Jennings)

6. Employees chat in the cafe of the KAYAK office in Concord, Massachusetts, October 2011. (© Greg Premru)

7. A security guard is on duty on the roof of a building at Rockefeller Center in New York on a rainy day on March 31, 2010. (© Kamal Sellehuddin)

8. A carpenter from Oakland, California, sits in the attic of a micro-home under construction on December 5, 2011. (© Matt Johnson)

Minas Dimitri repairs watches at his Thrift and New store on the corner of 9th Avenue and 43rd Street in New York on October 19, 2011. (© Anna Irrera)

10. Billy Kurtz unloads his ship "Juliet" after pulling crab traps out of the water. Photo taken in Cohasset, Massachusetts on November 25, 2011. When asked how the day went, he replied: "Not really, but at least I woke up." (© Alyssa Stone)#

11. On December 5, 2011, a metal worker at the American Steel Studio in Oakland, California, on a sculpture for an upcoming show. (© Matt Johnson)

Lily Fable stands at her family's Poseidon Bakery on September 27, 2011. This bakery has been operating in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen for 88 years. (© Anna Irrera)

13. Pilot Shepherd from Iowa is at Andersen Air Force Base on the island of Guam, June 23, 2007. (© Lucas Shepherd)

14. A young man works on planting trees on a private plot of land near Jacksonville Airport on January 5, 2012. His team is led by Bubba Goodman, who has been planting trees throughout the southeastern United States for more than thirty years. The planting season usually lasts from December to April, when the trees are at rest, and during which Bubba's team lives a nomadic life. (© Becky Harlan)

15. A reporter collects information about the Occupy Wall Street protest in Washington, DC. (© Joe Flood)

16. A waiter serves a banquet at the Ritz-Carlton, Chicago, October 24, 2011. (© Matt Johnson)

17. Workers are repairing the ship at the shipyard "Bay Shipbuilding Co." in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin on February 9, 2010. (© Pavel Farkas)

18. The inscription "We are hiring." (© Charter Weeks)

19. A policeman stands outside the White House on July 5, 2011. (© Samik Kharel)

20. A girl works at a computer on the high seas on her way to Bermuda, September 2011. (© Angela Petitt)

21. The driest California winter since 1883 allowed Dean Hall's construction crew to work shirtless on a sunny, 18-degree January day. Last January, three meters of snow lay at the site of this construction in Squaw Valley, California. (© Matt McDonald)

22. A street vendor sells cotton candy in Oakland, California on January 26, 2011. (© Matt Johnson)

23. Laying asphalt at night. (© Charter Weeks)

24. An employee of a candy store fills the packaging paper into a fudge machine. The picture was taken in Provincetown, Massachusetts on July 3, 2011. (© Pavel Farkas)

25. Fisherman. (© Charter Weeks)

26. Taxi for tourists in Manhattan in New York, June 18, 2011. (© Ed Pouso)

27. The worker hooks the load. (© Charter Weeks)

28. A long day at the seafood market in Pensacola, Florida, October 12, 2011. (© Kristina Krause)

29. Rick, Maryland Metals worker. (© Mark Burton)

30. Passengers and tourists crowd in the building of Grand Central Station in New York on the morning of March 30, 2010. (© Kamal Sellehuddin)

31. Soybean harvest in Iowa, October 26. (© Carla Bentley)

32. A welder works on the BNSF Railway in Drake, Arizona on March 20, 2010. (© Gary Gromer)

33. On October 8, 2011, Chicago police officers escort Chicago Occupy demonstrators down Michigan Avenue in downtown. (© Rebecca Sims)

34. Workers disassemble cars at a junkyard in Woodstock, Illinois, on March 19, 2010. (© Charisse Kennedy)

35. Carpenter Andrew Conner works in Johnson City, Tennessee, September 11, 2011. (© Allie Word)

36. Mike Niemann repairs yacht engines on Catalina Island, California, January 28, 2012. (© Dan Manross)

37. Jovan at work June 7, 2011 in Layton, Iowa. (© Brittany Rempe)#