Thai Salt Farm
These images were shot via drone & ground-level still-frame camera at a salt farm in Samut Sakhon Province, central Thailand. Samut Sakhon is the biggest producer of brine salt in Thailand, and the farms, which resemble shallow rice paddies, are located at different areas across the province. The farm itself resembles a giant grid of multi-coloured squares, with each square's colour dependent on it’s position in the harvesting process. The farm is located near the coast, with the salt sourced from the available seawater. The salt is harvested through a solar evaporation process, with a combination of wind and sunlight evaporating the water from shallow pools, leaving the salt behind. After harvesting, the salt is washed, drained, cleaned and refined. There are large drying sheds located every few hundred meters along the stretch of road at the edge of the farm. Once the salt is processed, it is bagged, loaded onto trucks and shipped to distributors or directly to markets.
The harvesting process is labor-intensive, with the farmers working throughout the day in the tropical heat. The sinewy worker with the white head of hair who is pushing the wheelbarrow in some pictures is 60 years old. He’s worked at salt farms since he was a teenager and well respected by his fellow labourers for his strength and effort at his work. He was shovelling piles of rice alongside a man half his age, but shovelled and hauled twice as many loads as his counterpart.
Read MoreThe harvesting process is labor-intensive, with the farmers working throughout the day in the tropical heat. The sinewy worker with the white head of hair who is pushing the wheelbarrow in some pictures is 60 years old. He’s worked at salt farms since he was a teenager and well respected by his fellow labourers for his strength and effort at his work. He was shovelling piles of rice alongside a man half his age, but shovelled and hauled twice as many loads as his counterpart.
