1998 Photo Contest, Daily Life, 3rd prize
Photographer

Fernando Moleres

Rapho

01 January, 1997

The octopuses landed at dawn are killed and tenderized by young workers, who beat them for an average of five minutes each. Estimates from the International Labor Organization indicate that in 1997 250 million children - five times as many as 1992 - were involved in child labor all over the world.

About the photographer

Fernando Moleres

Fernando Moleres was born in Bilbao, Spain in 1963. He began work as a nurse in his home village, traveling in 1987 to pursue that calling in Nicaragua, during the Sandinista per...

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