Doesn’t that lady have one of the best smiles in the entire world? That’s my wife. Some of my favorite work involves photographing children in orphanages. These kids have had rougher lives by age 4 than most of us have in a lifetime. So having a day or a week to play with, talk with,...
It’s challenging to travel and work, and post to a blog at the same time. It’s challenging enough to find time to edit. I’ve been in Bangkok for 4 days. Never have I seen a city quite like this. Over 12 million people, in a sprawling metropolis right out of Bladerunner. I’ve walked through hovels...
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Hi Fritz,
just spent a good twenty minutes or so reading your blog on Thailand and Cambodia. Some lovely pictures and harrowing stories. Just saying hello as I’m also a photographer/writer living in Scotland, (which is also cold but probably rainier than where you are!). I’ve been to Thailand twice but not recently and must say it was pretty horrible seeing these tiny little girls with westerners sometimes at least twice their size. I also stayed in Tokyo for a while where they have slavery rings operated by the Yakuza. They bring girls over from SE Asia on the pretext of nannying jobs then take their passports and make them virtual prisoners in a brothel. One of the girls who lived in the same place as I did worked with girls who’d managed to escape. She said it was absolutely awful. Some of the girls were totally destroyed by their experiences. But, again as in Thailand, there were some dedicated people trying to help them regain, or even gain, some self respect and self love.
Jen
Seth and I were talking over dinner about how we could tell people about what we’ve been doing, and at the same time give them entirely the wrong impression. And yet these stories are worth telling, because they are integral parts of this trip. Last night we stood on a street corner talking with a...
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Hi Nikki–
You don’t have to wait for someday to be an active part. There are simple things you can do right now. Here are some places to look:
For Their Rescue (who I’m traveling with): http://www.fortheirrescue.blogspot.com
Love 146: http://www.love146.com
Every little bit helps. And it makes a difference in the lives of real people.
This is so incredible. I appreciate reading the stories and your experience here. My attention was piqued a while back about this area and human trafficking. I hope some day to be an active part of the cause to stop the madness.
My posts so far have been mostly non-work related. But we have been working. Some of what we are doing involves confidentiality, so the images I can post are limited. I’ve spent the last few days with a transitional home for girls who have been rescued from child sex slavery. They range in age from...
Seth decided we needed to see The Killing Fields, and Tuol Sleng Prison. He was right: if we’re going to know Cambodia, you can’t skip the atrocity. The nation’s psyche has been formed by 30 years of it. It plays right into some of the causes of child sex slavery and human trafficking. We spent...
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