Trainspotting highly commended: people

October 12th, 2012 by Paula Bray

This is one of our highly commended photographs from our Trainspotting 2012 photography competition. This image titled ‘Homeward Bound’ was selected by the judges in the ‘People in railway and tram environments’ category to be included in the exhibition

The photographers caption reads:

Trains are the only mode of transport from their remote villages to Kolkata. Working for shamefully low wages on no-work-no-pay basis, these charwomen must miraculously fight into unbelievably crowded compartments each dawn… reach the city, wash, clean, scrub, cook… and begin the long homeward journey at nightfall.

Photography by Sandipan Mukherjee
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Tags: black and white, crowd, people, railway, trains, trainspotting

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

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