
As today is a monumental day in terms of our working project "Waves of Change" I am planning to spotlight a new image every day up until the official launch of the "Waves of Change" exhibit next Thursday June 10th. Today was a dry run as 1/3 of the exhibit was installed at Nexen for Environmental Week. It is pretty amazing to see it all come to life after the work and planning and gave me the idea to countdown with a photo a day. The first image is one of women laboring in the tsu nami effected region of Nagapattinum near the Bay of Bengal in Southern India. Every year the Indian government promises to pay workers a minimum wage for a certain number of days for community work of this nature. Many of the women looked far beyond their years to be doing this type of work, but not that it is much different in comparison to seeing women working as flag holders in construction zones here at home, except for the hard physical work part! It was around 41 degrees in the middle of the day when I caught this image of the women in their saris carrying heavy containers to revitalize and clean out their community oorani (water storage tank).
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