(in construction)

With rising global inequality, affluent families in the Global North are increasingly outsourcing their housework, with millions of domestic workers – predominantly women from the Global South – leaving their home countries to work abroad. Each year, in the UK, around 20.000 workers arrive under a type of visa which ties them to their employer, becoming highly vulnerable to exploitation. A place at the table is a photography project done in collaboration with the Voice of Domestic Workers (VODW), a grass-roots organisation based in London, that provides support to migrant domestic workers. Constructed around the dining table, a symbolic space within the home and workplace, the project collects individual stories and represents them through portraits and photographs of participants’ evocative objects. This body of work aims to amplify and articulate voices that may go unheard due to the private and invisible nature of this type of labour, and ultimately influencing policy change.