as seen: ready-to-work

©kjm

I had an assignment to shoot in a foundry recently, and it made me feel as soft as a baby's bottom. Everywhere you turned, there were huge guys pouring molten pots of iron into molds, hammering metal castings, and just generally working extremely hard. It was a place that makes you question the origin of all the things you consume daily.

Even the workers' footwear (as seen on a posted safety manual, above) is more hardworking than mine. Truth be told, I've been wearing rubber photoboy flip flops for most of the summer.