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    Travel Photography Scholarship 2011 Entry

    China

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    One of the last set of women to have her feet bound, she crawls around the courtyard on her hands and knees when she thinks she is alone. In her 80s now, her bound feet are still painful. In younger days she was known locally for her skill as a paper cutter. Here, with a chopped-off fingertip (farming accident) and a giant tumor in her wrist, she takes scissors and slices through a delicate sheet of paper for the first time in many years. by: skj Views[535] Many peasants in this village raise sheep to sell for their wool and meat. Obedient creatures, the sheep are let out of their pens once a day to run circles around the village paths for a spot of exercise. by: skj Views[323] Young Pan-Pan, like most village children, begins her day before dawn with a list of chores. She walks to her family’s plot of farmland to harvest alfalfa for their sheep to eat. As the sun crests the horizon, she is on her way back home now, her small feet pressing deep into the earth with the weight of her load. by: skj Views[282]   

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