A video shot in May at the dump, will catch up with the November videos later. In this video a young teenage boy is frying eggs or his families breakfast and a young girl (his sister) is cleaning a pail of a type of insect (similar looking to a cockroach but not a cockroach) that is either eaten by the family or sold. This type of insect is commonly eaten in Thailand and I guess Burma as well.
Some of the things I have seen on these trips, are hard to forget, they stick with you, they haunt your thoughts, they make you angry and more hardcore in your attempts to document and tell these stories.
An email I wrote to a friend in Canada about this video:
Some of the things I have seen on these trips, are hard to forget, they stick with you, they haunt your thoughts, they make you angry and more hardcore in your attempts to document and tell these stories.
Here is another video from back in May (will post November vids later). The video is of young children preparing food for the family, it was made about 7-8am. The insects in the pail are common food in that part of the world (bargirls from Issan province often eat them as well). Compare the life style of these children to your own L…., or to the children in your private school, or any public school for that matter in Edmonton. Remember the movie 8mm where they talk about seeing terrible pictures you cannot unforget??? That idea is a true thing, when you see people living in conditions like this, especially the children and you can not unforget what you have seen, it sticks with you forever, it haunts you. That is what makes me more harsh in regards to judging the inequalities we all face, why should some have so much? and others have so little? Why do we waste so much money here with our own selfish wants and needs and forget the young dirty girl cleaning the insects living in flies and garbage? Why is this young girl less important than your young daughter L…. I have a hard time understanding all of this…the value we put on different things in our worlds. We talk the good talk L…. about making changes and helping but we often just ignore things we do not want to see.
NOTE* I meant the comparison of the 2 young girls in this way, 1 (my friends girl) represented the remembered protected child and other the forgotten child.
NOTE* I meant the comparison of the 2 young girls in this way, 1 (my friends girl) represented the remembered protected child and other the forgotten child.
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| Brother and sister making breakfast outside their dump home, Thailand 2013 |
