Tuesday, December 29, 2009

A heavy load

This brickloader begged me to take his photo, so..... I see so many people here doing hard labor without much protection. Some just wear flip-flops while hauling bricks or moving large slabs of granite with crowbars. Watch your tootsies.

7 comments:

Louis la Vache said...

Oh, wouldn't OSHA have a field day here!

Tash said...

I love the rich colors. Must be so unusual to be asked to photograph people - so different from US & I would think even Serbia.
Word Verification: stali :)

Thérèse said...

Wow!
"Huffing and puffing"

Chuck Pefley said...

I can't imagine that many bricks on my head! Chiropractor's dream!

marley said...

We don't know how lucky we are to have employment laws. Great photo!

Virginia said...

Oh BIbi,
Your photographs are such a photojourney for us. Thank you for taking us along.
V

Marianne said...

laws and wheelbarrows! How many trips did the laborer take, I wonder? I was used to seeing relatively unprotected laborers in Serbia - no hardhats, sneakers, - but this is a step further away.

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