In
the beginning they took pictures just for the fun of it. They would
stare wide eyed at all they saw. They took starry eyed pictures. Later
they began to question and probe. They changed in other ways too. When
I first saw them,they had wanted to be garment workers. Rabeya had wanted
to be a doctor. Rabeya now wants to be a photojournalist, as do many
of the others. Ironically most of the kids are now at work, and have
little time to take photographs, but some like Phalam, still one to
carry on. "I work from eight in the morning till nine at night,
including fridays, but I do have an hour's lunch break. I can get home
in five minutes and be back in another five. If I finish my lunch in
ten minutes, I can still take pictures for the other forty minutes."
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