Friday, June 14, 2019

Photos From This Morning

Here are a few shots made today in the dump:

This is one of the first photo ideas of the day. Went up to where this man was living (had to climb a hill of garbage), gave him a bag of food and made a series of images as he woke up, it was around 545am. One of the advantages of modern digital cameras is you can shoot in low light situations like this, handheld. He asked me to get him a new mosquito net, but am unsure where I can buy one of those. He sleeps in this open area right in the garbage dump every night. Families of the Dump", Mae Sot Thailand 2019
Part of the scavenging process is sorting everything after you did it out of the garbage. In the photo everything is being sorted in its right bag. This is Wee Loo's 10 year old daughter, photographed soon after she woke up in the dump, she was washing her face with a cup of water. The boy wears "Thanaka" on his face which is made from tree bark. "Families of the Dump", Mae Sot Thailand 2019
This is Wee Loo's 10 year old daughter, photographed soon after she woke up in the dump, she was washing her face with a cup of water. I have photographed this family for almost 6 years now. "Families of the Dump", Mae Sot Thailand 2019