The winner of the annual “Labour Photo of the Year,” organised by the LabourStart organisation, has been announced. K M Asad, an Indian photojournalist, won with a striking image of a Bangladeshi boy resting after working, probably unpaid, in a filthy shipyard. The photo is a stark reminder that child labour is an ongoing issue in some parts of the world. Sometimes the sea doesn’t set people free, at all.
Asad’s caption reads:
A Bangladeshi boy works in a shipbuilding factory in down town. These factories employ young boys as apprentices without pay for the first few years. They work in extreme conditions without safety tools like gloves, goggles, and other protective gears. In exchange, they learn the skills of the trade. But this costs them loss of health and education. In Bangladeshi child work lad is under 18th years child don’t work in any work site. But no body eels to see them and no security in their life.
See Asad’s Flickr photostream.
Infra red radiation
Infra red radiation is a component of radiant heat emitted from hot objects such as molten metals. It is a double hazard as it causes heating of the tissues that it irradiates and may also cause the production of ultraviolet radiation in those tissues also.
Some infra red frequencies can cause burns to the eye including the retina. In the long term cataracts and hence loss of vision may occur. Skin burns can also occur, however the feeling of extreme heat on the skin leads most people to move away from the source before serious damage occurs.
maybe it’s not the sea that’s putting someone in bondage here…it’s the ship. and what is the ship? a human technological creation, a tool for exploration, transportation, procuring food, etc. of/across the sea(s). so basically, is it the sea here that fails the little boy in this picture, or is it his own species?
more importantly, what can we do so that little boys and girls, and grown up men and women don’t have to suffer from low wages, lack of health care, access to clean drinking water and food? what can we do to ensure that they can feel free at the edge of or in the sea?
i join those who look at labels more carefully, who research the human AND nonhuman cost of commodities and resources that we need or want.
thanks clif for reminding us to research what we buy, to act responsibly when we acquire, and to advocate with those who are providing the clothes on our backs, the food on our tables, and the epoxy that keeps us afloat.
ceci n’est past une metier – treachery of images (apologies rene Magritte)