Last month, I blogged about my late grandfather’s photography and how I came across them on my trip last year to Asia. The boxes of slides have been sitting in my apartment, untouched – until now. I’ve finally managed to get my hands on a slide scanner and have spent most of the night picking and scanning a handful of them.

I have no idea if these photos are in any kind of order – any text written on the slides or the boxes are in Chinese (which I can’t read). All I can tell is that they belong to the same series. What I did like about this set is the mystery behind what they are doing.

There are groups of men and women hunched over low tables picking and cutting at what looks like small twigs. What I find interesting is that they all look so dressed up. Who goes to work in a full suit and tie to work manual labour on a farm? I wish I knew what they were doing and what year this was.

I feel really honored to be able to have these slides in my possession. The handful here is only a small portion of one of the slide boxes – of which I have a huge supply. There definitely is no shortage and I’ll be going through and scanning these for some time to come.

I love the hair on the two men below. They look so Dick Tracyesque