Here is an image from THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP series. Also, a story if you want to read an interview and see more. Photo made with a 5x7 Linhof view camera on Tri-x film.
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| Nui-Ooh, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae Sot Garbage Dump, Mae Sot, Thailand, 2016 |
CONTEXT-The social doc project THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, is ongoing over the last 10 years. Part humanitarian part photography. Basically, it started out photographic and extended into AID as people saw the documentary photos. So, over the last 10 years I have made maybe 100 trips to the dump and made perhaps thousands of images on a variety of film and digital cameras. The families are refugees from Burma, living and working the Mae Sot garbage dump in Thailand (they were forced out in around 2021). The work has been exhibited many times and has also been published in 3 photography magazines. We have raised around $10 000 CAD to help the people. I use the money to buy goods and distribute them to the people each time I visit. Things like headlamps, rubber boots, over the counter medicines, food (rice is so damn heavy!), toys for the children. I have a thousand links for that. Here is one, arriving late at night in 2018 on a motorbike. That year (2018) I stayed 6 months in Thailand and went to the dump nightly for about 4 months to photograph and distribute things. For me this is an example that Art can be a force for good in the world, and help those in the art. The photos directly lead to AID for the people photographed. You can go to the YouTube channel to see more of the same.
