The Pettah district in Colombo is a wholesale district. The streets lined with wholesalers were lined with trucks carrying goods, and they were all unloading at once. There is no mechanization going on here. The unloading of goods from the trucks is not done by machines, but by people.
As I watched the people working, I saw men carrying bags from the trucks one after another into the store. The shoeless man in this photo was one of them. Perhaps the bags were too heavy for him, but his back was twisted like a hunchback's.
May 2013 PEOPLE SRI LANKA | |
COLOMBO HEMP SACK LUNGI SHOELESS TRANSPORTER |
No
7536
Shooting Date
Mar 2008
Posted On
May 20, 2013
Modified On
January 5, 2024
Place
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Genre
Street Photography
Camera
CANON EOS 1V
Lens
EF85MM F1.2L II USM