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Heavy Load
Location: Ghana
Image Date: Mar 7, 2020
Caption:
Asana carries a load with second-hand clothes and her son wrapped at the back in the sweltering heat of Accra’s market. Asana works as a kayayei (female head porter) at the biggest second hand market Kantamanto in Accra. March 7,2020.
Size: 4000h x 6000w
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Heavy Load
Credit: Natalija Gormalova via Visura
Asset ID: VA70125
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Copyright: © Natalija Gormalova, 2024
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Location: Ghana
Topics:
Human Rights
Journalism
Photography
Portraiture
Womens Rights
Youth
Since the 80’s teenage girls have been migrating from Ghana’s northern regions to the capital Accra in search of employment opportunities to escape poverty, early marriage and conflict in their villages.
Many of these young women have no formal education and on their arrival to Accra often end up working as kayayei (female head porters). For long hours in the sweltering heat, the kayayei carry goods on their heads throughout Accra’s busy markets for as little as few cedis a day (less than a dollar). Some loads weigh more than 120 pounds and the kayayie need to do a lot of trips a day to survive.
It is estimated there are more than 160,000 kayayei in Accra.
Natalija Gormalova
@ Freelancer
Based in Ghana
Natalija Gormalova is a visual artist working in photography, film and moving images. In her works, she is exploring social and environmental issues, global migration, cultures and identities. “For me, photography and film is a...
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