Friday, February 2, 2018

40 "Families of the Dump" Night Series Photographs

Here is a selection of 40 of the NIGHT "Families of the Dump" series. I hope to get the work exhibited on my return to Canada. An exhibition will lead to a continuing conversation, the spreading information (artist talks?) about the lives of the people at the dump. It might also help raise more funds to assist them.

I have spent $2255 CAD of the $3398 donation money raised for this current 6 month trip. Any conversation started is good, any money raised to directly help these people is even better. I will submit this 40 picture blog link to some gallery folk. Maybe someone out there will see the importance in it.  Maybe someone out there will help us tell the story of the "Families of the Dump".

Note**These photographs were made in the Mae Sot Thailand garbage dump. I started photographing the families in 2013.

Note** This color work is ongoing, still plan many more night time visits to donate goods (headlamps, boots, rice) to the families and make pictures before I am done here in Thai and return to Canada to my regular night time security guard job.

Workers, Mae Sot Garbage Dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Family in swamp area home, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Boy protecting sister, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
 3  Woman workers, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Swamp area shack, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Husband and wife, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Brother cares for his sister,, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Boys playing video game, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Family outside their dump shack home, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Sister caring for brother, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Dump structures, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Frightened young boy, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Girl waiting for garbage trucks, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Asking for rubber boots, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018

Family meal on the dump garbage, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Bedroom in the dump on the garbage, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Win Lay-Auh watching her parents work, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Garbage truck arrives, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Home on top of the garbage, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Brother and sister in the darkness, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Waiting for garbage trucks, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Mother working the garbage, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Sleeping on the garbage, Mae Sot Garbage Dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
The dump 4am, boy alone, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
The hardest working man, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Working the garbage, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2017
Burning branches, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2017
Group of workers, Mae Sot Dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Playing cards in the dump, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2017
Wife and husband, found whiskey, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2017
Drunken men, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2017
Husband and wife in their dump shack home, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2017
Waiting for garbage trucks, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Woken up,, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
First worker, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2019
Man thinking about his family in Burma, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2017
Family in candle light in front of their dump shack home, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
 
Garbage truck arrives Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Group working the garbage trucks, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018
Self-Portrait with Jen Jun, Mae Sot garbage dump, "Families of the Dump" 2018