The Dhobi Ghat is the world’s largest outdoor laundry. Built in 1895, this laundry washes thousands of clothes each day. The city of Bombay rents over 800 washing pens, each of them fitted with a “beating stone.” Clothes are soaked, slapped, spun, and even ironed in this this massive laundry, which is spread over 10 acres in the middle of Bombay. I caught this washerman standing in a tub of water adjacent to his washing pen. It is probably the only laundry in the world where the workers labor in their undershorts. Each “dhobi” stands at his washing stone for up to 16 hours.