Chris Steele-Perkins
Children Scavenging in Karachi, 2010
Lithograph
46 x 55.5 cm
Edition of 6 signed numbered artists' proofs
Signed
Enitharmon Editions
Online only
Online only
£ 360.00
‘Slavery, in different forms, in different places, in different times links these photographs. In 1997, when I took the photograph of the garbage-collecting children in Karachi, I was not thinking...
‘Slavery, in different forms, in different places, in different times links these photographs. In 1997, when I took the photograph of the garbage-collecting children in Karachi, I was not thinking of them as slaves, I was thinking of them as part of a process where waste is re-cycled, plastics, metals collected, sorted, melted down, transformed, re-used. A good thing.
Only later did I start to think about whether they had any choice in the matter, if they had other realistic options in order to survive, whether they were physically intimidated into doing what they do. I don’t really know the answer, but why would anyone spend all day up to their necks in toxic filth if they did have a choice?’ Chris Steele-Perkins
Only later did I start to think about whether they had any choice in the matter, if they had other realistic options in order to survive, whether they were physically intimidated into doing what they do. I don’t really know the answer, but why would anyone spend all day up to their necks in toxic filth if they did have a choice?’ Chris Steele-Perkins