1974 Press Photo Shelter home of a pioneering fisherman on Lake Nasser in Egypt

The vast lake was as empty and silent as the surrounding desert. Although the rising sun was still low, the heat was already oppressive. In the distance two boys and a man, in a rowing boat, stopped hauling their net for a moment and waved. These were three of 5,000 fishermen and boys now living-in wretched conditions-on Lake Nasser, in about 150 scattered camps. They are pioneers of new villages to be built on the shores of this man-made lake, created when the Nile River was dammed at Aswan. If you're a pioneering fisherman on Lake Nasser, your bedroom is a rowboat, your kitchen is a small can and your living room an improvised shelter from the blistering sun.

Photo is dated 1974.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.