Image DAY 330 SOCIAL & POLITICAL COMMENTARY

Child Labor

CAPTURING ITS ENORMITY

Perpetrators of child labor cover up or prevent the truth from being revealed. Capturing the truth can be dangerous and lead a photographer into unknown areas and countries. Although most countries have laws designed to prevent child labor, many do not enforce them. Children at work in places that are dangerous, working long hours every day, receiving low wages, with no opportunity to acquire schooling and without the concept of hope or a future are victims and a missing link in the community. Photographing their plight is a calling.

Photographs depicting child labor ...

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