1998 Photo Contest, Daily Life, 3rd prize
Photographer

Fernando Moleres

Rapho

01 January, 1997

In a warehouse, noxious substances are used by children to clean oil cans for recycling. Estimates from the International Labor Organization indicate that in 1997 250 million children - five times as many as 1992 - were involved in child labor all over the world.

About the photographer

Fernando Moleres

Fernando Moleres was born in Bilbao, Spain in 1963. He began work as a nurse in his home village, traveling in 1987 to pursue that calling in Nicaragua, during the Sandinista per...

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