(Photo: Kirsten Luce)
This photograph originally appeared in the January/February 2017 issue of Pacific Standard.
Mingaladon Township, Myanmar: Laborers in a brick factory, about an hour's drive from the new hotels and shopping malls of the city of Yangon, get by on $3 per day.
Assam, India: At sunset a fisherman casts his net on a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, where commercial overfishing has made it more difficult to operate.
Mahachai, Thailand: Burmese migrant workers peel shrimp at a processing factory in Thailand's Samut Sakhon province.
San Luis, Arizona: A United States Drug Enforcement Administration official aims a flashlight down a 55-foot-deep drug-smuggling tunnel that spans a distance of nearly 240 yards under the U.S.-Mexico border. Drugs ran north, and weapons and cash ran south.
Ajo, Arizona: Heavy-duty, non-biodegradable canteens—occasionally insulated with clothing or blankets to prevent chafing—scatter the desert in the Tucson sector of the United States border with Mexico.
Hermosillo, Mexico: Central American immigrants walk to a soup kitchen for some much-needed sustenance after traveling by Mexican freight train—known among the caravaners as "the beast."
