Biratnagar

First Interiew today with ___________. He was a supervisor at Biratnagar Jute Mills which is the first factory ever built in Nepal. This guy has been working there for 18 years but because of the political instability, financial crisis, load shedding, and lack of raw materials the factory was finally forced to shut down.

Many of the people live in quarters in the proximaty of the factory. There are approximately 1,100 workers just waiting to be paid (7 months overdue). For now they sit and wait, some of them are starving and some have started driving rickshaws.

For now I'll follow _______throughout the day tomorrow for the Strikes which happen a few times each week.

The BJM's strikes close the border to India some days and other days shut down parts of Biratnagar. It's going to be from 10:00am -2:00pm and it's going to be hot! I don't mean like "awesome" hot but i mean like "bright sun, ridiculous humidity hot". I plan on using a series of upward angles to get people's sillhouettes against the bright background and also record the sound.

I'm meetin ______ at his house to photograph him preparing for the Strike and then actually go and document the event. Wasn't sure how this project was going to pan out...i'm off to a good start, not wasting any time.

My plan is to follow someone, a laborer, who is facing hard times because of the shutdown.