Richard Oborn, Shaping the clay (PLACES 2024)

A photograph of muscularity. Akin to a frieze of olden times celebrating great tasks achieved or victories achieved. But here it is labourers in a Bangladesh brick making factory working hard, almost desperately to shape river mud into units suitable for brick making.

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