Interesting project. Like the way everyone around them seems to take the costumes for granted.

Theo, I think that look comes from the fact that the photographer knows all these people. He wasn't just some artist coming in with a big idea. I like how the artifice just seems so commonplace and normal.

"he works in a fish market and sends home $400 a week"..."he's a cook (it doesn't even say chef) and sends home $350 a week"...what do they live on? $1 a week? oh well, I suppose they work an awful lot of hours. It just boggles me that they are able to send so much home.

I like these photos a lot, and honestly? I didn't think I would (no idea why). Huh.

Those are really col. The concept is gimmicky, but somehow it ends up really working. The models were very good sports.

what do they live on? $1 a week?

Judging only from the low-wage-earning immigrants I've worked with, they are masters at finding efficiencies. Yes, they do work more hours than 40 usually, so that helps. Second, some get paid under the table, which saves taxes and the like. But they are wizards at spending less - sharing apartments with several others collaboratively to reduce rent, riding bikes and taking public transport instead of owning a car, eating at work (in restaurants) and eating frugally at home, shopping at Goodwill for clothes and discount stores for necessities. I am sometimes really in awe of the degree of self-sacrifice.