I've been feeding ChatGPT blog posts I made 20 years ago. It's so easy to forget life experience as you get older - I totally forgot this moment when I was the first person to take poor migrant laborers in Dubai's photos for the first time in 2 years.

Technology moves so fast and now smartphones are ubiquitous, but back in 2007 just the idea of these men working far away from their families as the bread-makers and being so poor that phone calls to their family were probably a rare luxury and a photograph of themselves as a memento or to send to their families back home was an even greater luxury.

Technology revolves around photos and videos for the most part.

A laborer in Dubai relaxing in the tea/break room in Dubai Marina. This was taken in 2007 and most of these men hadn't had a photo taken of them in more than 2 years - I took photos of them, printed them out and returned to give them the physical photos which was an extreme luxury for them and the only way at the time they could mail a photo of themselves back to their families.