Insufficient Land - Christina Malkoun

Chiang Dao, a land where rice fields are endless. Agriculture is one of the most wide working sector. Thus, ironically, despite these infinite lands, villagers are victims of landlessness.
Chiang Dao, a land where rice fields are endless. Agriculture is one of the most wide working sector. Thus, ironically, despite these infinite lands, villagers are victims of landlessness.
Zoom on an area between those endless lands situated next to Chiang Dao's Cave Temple. A public place where they were allowed to stay and where no one could expel them.
Those children do not have access to education. Their parents can not support them financially, they are poor and unemployed.
They also lack of proper hygiene, All their games are very earthy, muddy and sandy.
They also lack of proper hygiene, All their games are very earthy, muddy and sandy.
They gather at Chiang Dao's Cave Temple every single day.
This public space is where they found comfort.

Insufficient Land - Chiang Dao, Thailand - 2012

One of the most important issues facing rural households in northern Thailand is landlessness and fractionalization of agriculture holdings. Wealthy people, local or not, are buying huge lands, most commonly rice fields, and unemployed villagers are being exploited with an underpaid salary to work in these lands. All its goods are being exported for the owner’s own benefice, leaving the locals victim of poverty and landlessness.

These are the images of those villagers’ children, living in poor conditions, but still finding a small peace of land to play in and be happy. They gather in front of Chiang Dao’s temple every day, their only public space that they can call their own.