Sri Lanka October 2005
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The St John's tea estate. Its idyllic appearance hides brutal exploitation
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Tea plantation workers weighing the tea they have picked. They earn the equivalent of 66p a day and if they don't pick 44 lbs of
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Tea worker shows how her hands have been damaged by hears of hard labour
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Women workers at the pedro tea plantation unload heavy sacks of just-picked tea
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Mr Muthu and family. Nine of them live in two rooms, only one of which has electricity. They eat meat once a year
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Women cooking next to an open drain outside their one storey shacks on the Eskdale estate
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Twenty four year old Dewathy (centre) became blind and mentally disabled when she was only seven
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Mr Muthukumar with his family including Panchawarnam (centre) who is the only one working and has to keep the entire family
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Mr Mohanrajah in front of his home. He lost the tip of his finger in a roller in arubber factory. He received £8 towards his med
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Mrs Selaimah in her kitchen now 77 years old, started work at 13 on the rubber plantation and retired at 60 with a one-off pe
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Two gem miners working knee-deep in water with a sieve paid no wages and receive only meals
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An ancient pump used to try and prevent flooding 50 feet below the surface where workers are digging for valuable stones