Khun Tan's hands reflect a life spent working in rice fields near Doi Saket, Thailand. The 90-year-old has retired from working the fields. Now, his young farming son, Khun Dej takes care of him, his wife and the family farm.
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Portrait of Khun Dej, in Doi Saket, Thailand. The life-long farmer also works other people's fields for money, as his own farm no longer covers the bills.
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Khun Dej.
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View of rice fields tended by Khun Dej in Doi Saket in northern Thailand. Khun Dej works these fields in addition to his own for extra money, now that his family farm no longer makes enough money to pay the bills.
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View of rice fields tended by Khun Dej in Doi Saket in northern Thailand.
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Portrait of Khun Tan, in Doi Saket, Thailand. The 90-year-old has retired after a life working in the fields of northern Thailand. Now, his young farming son, Khun Dej takes care of him and his wife and the family farm.
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Portrait of Khun Poot, Khun Tan's wife, in Doi Saket, Thailand.
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Sri Tatui, 52, sits on cement bags taking a break from building a house in Sansai district, Chiang Mai province, Thailand. "Thai people now don’t want to do the rice field because it’s hard work," he said. "Only the Burmese now.”
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Num Loangki, a 35-year-old Burmese farm worker who was born in Myanmar’s Shan state, sits in a Thai-owned rice field he tends near Chiang Mai. He has spent most his life in northern Thailand, planting and harvesting on Thai-owned farms. "Thai people are not fussy at all," he said. "They just pay us, we do the work.”
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