On long walks, I’ve often come across colored gloves of field workers. The pineapple field workers are migrants from Burma, Cambodia and Laos. Many of the workers are indentured or trafficked, working long days and living in harsh conditions. Their discarded gloves tell a story.
Sebastian says
Are the gloves real? I mean, they were left in the dirt? Who would leave one glove?
So many questions.
Nice one, James
Denise says
Yes, they’re all real. They weren’t intentionally left behind; it’s easy to lose a work glove out of a pocket in the fields or along roads. When the photographer occasionally comes across the migrant workers’ lost gloves, he photographs them.