Cambodia's Female Construction Workers - CARE International
In a country with virtually no labour protections, female construction workers face a double burden. Care International has long advocated for better protections for women and girls, as well as workers. In 2016 the international NGO commissioned me to carry out a series of portraits and editorial photos of women laborers to be used alongside newly launched research on their situation.
Working with a team I hired myself, I identified suitable construction sites around Phnom Penh, helped find women to feature, and revisited them over a series of days as they worked under harrowing conditions, for about $5 a day.
After getting to know the women, I shot them in their homes, on break, and at work. The photos were used by Care for their website, internal communications, and disseminated to the media.