No Longer a Simple Future


  • Photographer
    Karen Lunney
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Cindual Pty Ltd
  • Date of Photograph
    2013
  • Technical Info
    Leica M240, M9

Throughout the world, social fabrics distort in response to demands or actions from distant countries. Children must adapt to evolving conditions, new constraints and unforeseen opportunities.

Story

Throughout the world, social fabrics are distorting in response to demands or actions from distant places and to novel climates. Children in rural communities are particularly susceptible, as traditional life is affected.
Waorani girls now face their near-pristine rainforest surroundings in East Ecuador being transformed by Chinese-facilitated oil exploitation and the migration of farmers into cleared areas along oil roads.
After another day of back-breaking work in riverside fields, a mother wonders how her daughter will fare in the future. Recent warming conditions in Bhutan mean they can now cultivate rice at their elevation but with risks of landslides and sudden floods caused by remote melting glaciers.
Children await visitors to their village set up to give an alternative income to poaching and to show the traditional ways of forest tribes in Rwanda. Hunters have become conservationists and dancers. Their future is now protecting the mountain gorillas previously at risk and in chaperoning hikers to primate sanctuaries.
Young Maasai boys have always cared for the village cattle, with education a secondary concern. Cattle herding in Kenya must now adjust to increasing wildlife conservation measures, worsening drought and competing farming and tourism. The future will require different skill sets and interactions from their children.
For Bhutanese families, having one son as a monk bestows knowledge of Buddhist ways and reduces educational costs. In a rapidly modernising country, monastic life will still be important but must adjust to greater connections with the outside world.

You can create multiple entries, and pay for them at the same time.
Just go to your History, and select multiple entries that you would like to pay for.