Cargo boats birthed at the small jetty at Luang Prabang in Laos. Plying their way to and from the capitol Vientiane when the river is high. These cargo boats carry all and sundry. The boats are owned and run by members of a single multi-generational family. even tiny babies are on board with them. Everyone onboard has a job and a task. Cooking, cleaning, loading, unloading. Everyone pitches in.
Luang Prabang is a beautiful and charming old French colonial town on the Mekong river.
I completed this photo essay as part of my final assignment when I attended The Work Shop Asia Photography Workshop in Laos in 2006 with Jack Picone, Steve Coleman, and the late great Philip Jones Griffiths.