Girl lighting cheroot by John Spies
John Spies

Girl lighting cheroot by

A Black Lahu girl uses a piece of firewood to light her after-breakfast smoke. She has rolled rough home-grown tobacco with wood shavings in a corn sheath. Before schools and development projects encroached into remote hilltribe villages in Thailand, many of the young children smoked. I have seen breast-feeding babies grab their mothers cheroots and take a toke…

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About John Spies

I am an Australian expat living in the hills of Mae Hong Son province Thailand (please visit cavelodge.com). I photograph almost everything, above and below ground.

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girl, children, smoke, smoking, child, thailand, asia, hilltribe, cheroot, lahu

Comments

  • simba
    simbaabout 3 years ago

    Fabulous capture.

  • Thanks Linda. I just love warm light through split-bamboo walls

    – John Spies

  • Vanessa Barklay
    Vanessa Barklayalmost 3 years ago

    Another emotion stirring shot John, the scene is very natural too, capturing reality :O)

  • Thanks Vanessa, I have always liked the candid nature of this shot.

    – John Spies

  • ginabgood1
    ginabgood1about 2 years ago

    Wow, smoking so young. Amazing image.

  • marcpayne
    marcpayneabout 1 year ago

    great image thanks again’