He has photographed Ghanaian laborers who cover themselves in banana leaves and garbage bags to collect honey from beehives in the jungle, diamond miners in an isolated town along the Zimbabwe border, and teen-age workers at an oversized dumpsite for obsolete electronics on the outskirts of Accra.
The Pheidole ant genus includes more than a thousand species, all of which contain worker ants with oversized heads and jaws that allow them to break up food.
Although, when faced with oversized insects and hooded, white-coated workers, a typical reaction may be fear, Fourtou's surreal style repurposes these elements for humor and play.
Members of Filipino gangs, like Satanas, referred to themselves as "Pinoy Cholos" and took in the 'cholo' fashion -- some believing the oversized-clothes look originated from early Filipino farm workers.
The plazas are enormously popular with tourists, office workers and those who like to dress up as oversized cartoon characters, but they have always had an impromptu feeling about them.
The traditional business elements communicate to corporate clients the wearer is grounded and reliable, while the eccentricities – the bright patterns, oversized accessories or super casual shoes – differentiate them from a typical worker-drone.
Large portraits of the subjects, taken by the photographer Lynsey Addario, were displayed in oversized wooden diptychs, accompanied by pamphlets that provided one-page bios of each worker.
When the 21 fourth and fifth graders marched double-file down Broadway, colorful oversized placards slung around their necks, they looked like nothing so much as pint-sized workers on strike.
They recently made their debut at the Workers Stadium auditorium, clad in clothes that would have done Puff Daddy proud: silver track suits, oversized white tuxedos and Goth black tunics and pants.
By limiting the number of workers who could gather in one spot for a meal, the city kept large numbers of oversized trash trucks from being parked together in a single neighborhood or in restaurant parking lots, said Enrique Zaldivar, who runs the sanitation bureau.
