Larry Louie made a wonderful set of photographs of the sulfur mining in the Ijen Volcano (Mt. Ijen) in Indonesia. A possible long term photo story there. Will talk to him about it next week when we meet. Here is his shooting story, and the story of the workers.
There would be some serious difficulties and dangers to the project. It emight even be life threatening. But the idea of helping these miners, telling their very human stories is very appealing me. I believe many of the workers only use cloth masks. Handing out reasonably made gas masks as gifts seems like a worthy thing to do. Just like the headlamps and boots in the dump in Mae Sot. Giving out the masks and helping these hard workers seems so right.
https://www.wired.com/story/sulfur-miners-volcano-indonesia/
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| Photo by Larry Louie |
