In Thailand, completely covered up construction workers are a familiar sight. Thousands of them toil in intense heat on skyscrapers and along roadsides. In their lunch-breaks, they sit by the side of other people’s dreams they have been recruited to build, and laugh, eat and smoke, sometimes without removing their protective clothing - masks, sunglasses, balaclavas, scarves - which renders them virtually invisible to ordinary Thais.

The brilliance of Ralf Tooten’s stark portraits… more