Childlabour in India

I travelled intensely with writer Rudi Rotthier in the nineties to cover childlabour in India. In Firozabad we found 4 children working in a circus, they were sold by their parents for 1200 roepies (or 30 euros) in total. This snake-girl was one of them. Familes were bonded in slavery because of debts, children were weaving expensive carperts because of their fine fingers. Others were making toys for kids in the West…

The travels resulted in his book ‘The Children of the Crocodile’

Photos by Marleen Daniels

The Battery Girl of Calcutta; Dhobiya Tala Slum

Battery-recycling in Calcutta

Beedi’s in Vellore, Tamil Nadu

Aluminium recycling in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu

Carpets weaving in Varanasi region

Pottery in Cairo

Fishing harbour in Mumbai

On the beach in Mumbai

Kite making in the slums of Calcutta

Matchboxes in Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu

Matchmaking in Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu

Matchmaking in Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu

Matchmaking in Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu

Brick kilns in Dehli

Coloring of the Varanasi Sari

Silk production in Ramanagaram

Silk production in Ramanagaram

Silk production in Ramanagaram

Silk production in Ramanagaram

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