State of Disrepair

State of Disrepair
May 2005 on Ko Phi Phi Don, Thailand

Imagine a distance of 300 feet. A frame of reference would be the length of a football field. Imagine at one end of the field a large track-hoe, one of the pieces of earth moving machinery used to dig trenches...a piece of machinery that weighs thousands of pounds. With your imagination envision a wave coming toward the track-hoe. A wave with such force that it moves the machine�not just moving it, but turning it top over bottom, pummeling the machine with the force of water, as well as debris caught in this fierce wave�mangling the huge metal treads on which the machine should maneuver. Imagine when this now ruined machine comes to rest...seconds later...the track-hoe is at the other end of the football field.

Omit the football field, and this scenario is not an imaginary one. On Ko Phi Phi Don this �imaginary� scenario played out on December 26, 2004. The KATO track-hoe, in the picture, came to rest about three hundred feet from where it started out on the morning of the tsunami. No one was behind its controls steering. The machine was swiftly displaced and left in a state of disrepair by the undeniable power of the tsunami.

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* Half of the profit will be donated to assist with ongoing tsunami relief efforts in Thailand.

The profit will be determined by taking the overall proceeds from the sales and subtracting the expenses for film processing and framing the images for the shows. The funds will be provided to specific individuals I met on my trip (not organizations) who are still in the Thailand area helping with recovery projects. The individuals receiving the funds are charged with finding locals in need of the funds and dispensing them accordingly for relief projects. [For example, contributions I personally provided to one of these individuals went to paying for school tuition for the daughter of one of the shopkeepers whose store was destroyed in the tsunami. Other such private donations have bought engines for fishing boats, books to replace those lost in the tsunami, etc. My personal experience while in Thailand was the funds being doled out by volunteers who had direct exposure to individuals, in the communities hardest hit by the tsumani, were those funds being best allocated. The volunteers would accompany the tsunami survivor to pay the school fees to the school directly or to buy the engine directly instead of money being handed out.]