women at work

Yesterday I set a photography challenge of documenting women at work. Of course this seems a simple task, as there are women at work everywhere, but not all want to be photographed just going about their everyday business. Firstly I headed to the local market to see all the fruit and veg sellers and it soon became apparent that the more lucrative butchery and fish selleing were the male domain. Then I walked along the back streets and found a small production line of four women along with their children. By the woman is a pile of sheep lower legs. They had to be firstly boiled and burnt and then scrapped to get all the hair off, then hacked up so they could be used in cooking. The butchers waste became someone else's industry and income. These hooves and shins were not wasted. India is cramped with entrepreneurs. There's seldom a chain shop, just small holdings selling independently, from the fruit seller with their bike, to the flower garland seller by the temple and the millions of small shops throughout the high street there's a market of 1.3 billion people to sell to!!!