Photos of Contemporary Workers With Ancient Artifacts From the Earliest Histories of Their Jobs

Commissioned by the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, these portraits depict present-day workers alongside ancient Middle Eastern artifacts that date from the very beginnings of their professions. Kenneth Clarke, president and CEO of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, holds a 2007 logbook kept by US soldiers fighting in Iraq. Clarke stands next to a prism inscribed with records of the military campaigns of Assyrian king Sennacherib, ca. 689 B.C. (OIM A2793). Read more.