“As part of the Modern-Day Forms of Slavery group project, a photojournalistic investigation by NOOR, Pep Bonet focuses on the issue of child labour and exploitation in Bangladesh where there are nearly 5 million children between the age of 5 – 15 working in hazardous conditions in factories, garages and homes, in railway stations and markets, in small foundries — many for little or no pay at all. Many boys and girls who work do not have access to education and become trapped in low-skilled, low-pay work that further binds them into the cycle of poverty.” (Source: http://pepbonet.com/2013/08/portfolio/child-labour-and-exploitation-in-bangladesh/)
Category Archives: Kunst und Arbeit
“Men at Work: Iranian workers taking photographs – exhibit”
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2015/jan/21/-sp-iran-workers-are-taking-photograhs-farideh-sakhaeifar
“At work” – great photographies
“A worker walks past chicken eggs stored at a major eggs production factory in suburban Beijing, China, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Three more Chinese brands of eggs containing melamine were identified and a local government has acknowledged that officials knew about the contamination for a month before it was publicly disclosed. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) #”
Source of the picture: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/at_work.html#photo3; source of the whole article: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/at_work.html; “The Big Picture – News stories in Photographs, http://boston.com