Water is often laboriously carried in plastic containers balanced at both ends of a pole in the remote rural villages of Laos. Village houses have thatched roofs, and are usually built with ample space below them for cooking and sheltering hogs and chickens. All of which involves hard work. I don’t show the face of this woman, but her sarong tells us something about her culture, the arm raised to her head says a bit about how she feels, and the large house just around the curve well might be her own. In the rural villages of Laos, work is life and life is work. It is difficult to separate the two.