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Railway worker - Grahamstown, South Africa. This is another image that has remained in my portfolio for many years (see earlier uploads in my photostream).
I took it while I was a student studying for my Postgraduate Higher Diploma of Journalism at Rhodes University.
I was crossing the railway bridge when I looked down and saw this worker walking along the tracks. Immediately I saw the potential for a graphic composition using the structure of the bridge railing. Then it was just a matter of waiting for the worker to walk into the right position in the composition. All I had time for was one shot. My heart jumped when I pressed the shutter and I instantly knew I had captured something worthwhile. It's a good example of anticipating the moment.
Famous South African photographer, Obie Oberholzer, my teacher and mentor at the time, praised the image when he saw it. He suggested I print it on a high contrast paper to add more impact, which is of course exactly what I did.
I followed his advice and this image has stood me in good stead over the years.
My camera at the time was a Pentax ME 1. Shot on Ilford HP5, developed and printed in the University darkroom.
Hope you enjoy it too.
AFGE's Women's and Fair Practices Departments host its 2nd Annual YOUNG Summit. This weekend of training focuses on energizing young workers in the labor movement.
Chandler Wine Merchants. Which was on Gordon Avenue where it meets Portswood Road, Southampton. I believe the building is still there. My aunt, Florence Ethel Le Marechal, is in the middle.
Photo from about 1950.
Marifa Yemam , 25 year old Health Extension Worker in Tehuledere Woreda, South Wollo
© UNICEF Ethiopia/2013/Tsegaye
In an impressive display of international worker solidarity, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 (ILWU) in the San Francisco Bay Area refused to cross pro Palestinian picket lines to unload the Israeli Zim ship, gaining victory in 2014 for the Block the Boat movement. Longshoremen at other west coast ports also refused to unload. The following article from 2021, when a similar movement took place, talks about the 2014 victory and gives further context.
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Disrupting Apartheid’s Supply Chain
Jul 9, 2021
By Samantha Grasso
AFGE's Women's and Fair Practices Departments host its 2nd Annual YOUNG Summit. This weekend of training focuses on energizing young workers in the labor movement.
photo by mohammed maree
ياسر عبد العليم الدهشان
عامل نظافة بعقد مؤقت بمدينة طنطا .. يتقاضى مرتب شهريا 96 جنية
Furniture Factory Interior, Seattle, June 25, 1935
Photographer:
Unknown
Subjects (LCSH):
Furniture workers--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital Collection:
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
content.lib.washington.edu/feraweb/index.html
Item Number: FER0003
Persistent URL:
content.lib.washington.edu/u?/fera,197
Visit Special Collections reproductions and rights page for information on ordering a copy.
University of Washington Libraries. Digital Collections content.lib.washington.edu/
Salt pan workers near the temple of Jogninar, Vill. Sanghad, Kachchh. Their bright colored dresses stand out in the white snow and sandy land.
It was winter, and still it was difficult for us to stand out under the hot sun, when those workers carried out their daily routine activities.
A worker in a wood-logging factory in Central Java, Indonesia. He was making and sharpening the metal jagged-edged blade that would be used on chainsaws by fellow workers for logging.
Minolta Autocord TLR with Ilford Pan-F Plus50. Developed in Rodinal (1+50) 11 mins@20C.
AFGE's Women's and Fair Practices Departments host its 2nd Annual YOUNG Summit. This weekend of training focuses on energizing young workers in the labor movement.
Mattress Factory Tufting Room Interior, Seattle, November 6, 1934
Photographer:
Unknown
Subjects (LCSH):
Mattress industry--Washington (State)--Seattle
Mattresses--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital Collection:
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
content.lib.washington.edu/feraweb/index.html
Item Number: FER0139
Persistent URL:
content.lib.washington.edu/u?/fera,31
Visit Special Collections reproductions and rights page for information on ordering a copy.
University of Washington Libraries. Digital Collections content.lib.washington.edu/
Four workers stand for a portrait taken form low down. They are helping - as are many other men and women their age - in the fight against ebola.
The country has been the centre of attention for overseas aid since mid 2014 when an outbreak of Ebola started to spread across the country.
AFGE's Women's and Fair Practices Departments host its 2nd Annual YOUNG Summit. This weekend of training focuses on energizing young workers in the labor movement.
Women workers packing a side table. Jepara, Central Java, Indonesia, June, 2009.
Photo by Murdani Usman/CIFOR
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At the British American Tobacco plant in Southampton, October, 1950.
From left to right:
Pat Jackson
Chris Ryan
Queenie Le Marechal
Rita Newman