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Photo: @rezaphotography // The builders of millennia // I was in Egypt for National geographic Magazine. I met him in Cairo.

Nine years old, he spends 12 hours a day making and carrying pottery. He toils in a makeshift workshop, ashed with walls covered in thick, black soot. The fuel used to heat the kilns comes from Cairo’s trash. He inhales the fumes for days, years on end. He sees nothing all day except the dark and dirty walls, the dizzying spin of the potter’s wheel, and the clay that he pulls up from the wheel, stretching and shaping it until it is transformed.

How many are there of these “children of the South” — these underage workers who spend their days holed up in workshops and factories in order to make consumer goods to satisfy Western markets?

The list of products they make with their small, nimble hands is lengthy, and it includes dolls, sneakers, and clothes. The children have to work to help feed their families. Child labor sometimes ensures a precarious financial stability in countries whose economies are in peril, but mostly it benefits multinational corporations, which profit from such cheap labor.

Looking at the images of these children, whose futures are so blighted, leads me to the sad reflection that they are less the “builders of the third millennium” than the “slaves of the third millennium.” The Egyptian people, the proud heirs of ancestors who left us the Pyramids as evidence of their genius and resolve, today oscillate between misery and serenity, living a life of toil but approaching it with apparent nonchalance — a people who, it seems to me, are traveling through history with a spirit of grandeur and decadence.
Published in "War + Peace" (National Geographic Publishing, 2007), "Reza, entre guerre et paix" (National Geographic Publishing, 2008)

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