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| From 2025 09 17 Khiva |
Today's photo-of-the-day is of a child with a chisel cutting into a board in a courtyard in Khiva, Uzbekistan. So many questions. Shouldn't he be in school? How many hours a day does he do this work? How much does his finished work sell for in the market? I feel bad that I know so little about this. A short search with Google suggests that child labor during the cotton harvest used to be a significant problem, but by 2022, the international "Cotton Campaign" coalition announced it was ending its global boycott of Uzbek cotton after concluding that state-imposed forced labor in the cotton sector had largely been eliminated. Of course that is not what my photo is all about. It's about one child in a city making a wooden craft.
Bonus photo after the jump.
Cotton is a major agricultural product of Uzbekistan. This photo shows tourist labor being used to harvest this year's crop. It was taken on the way from Khiva to our next stop in Uzbekistan, the fabled city of Bukhara.
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| From 2025 09 19 Bukhara |
"Chisel taps softly,
Tourists pass, cameras raised.
Questions fill the frame."
— h/t ChatGPT
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