TITLE: Old Order Amish Children with Buggies

I have been much interested in Amish way of life, family and labour value, solid and tradition in the community without influence by English world or modern technologies. Old Amish is not allowed to be photographed due to religious reason. so, it is extremely difficult for me to take pictures even children. But I tried to have permissions or instant subtle eye contact and so forth. As a result, I had wonderful opportunities to observe and photograph their wedding, studying at school, raising barn together, sewing quilt at church.

Here I have selected the photographs of children with buggies. Amish boys often wear straw hats ragged and broken visor. Certainly, most of us will trash it. Yet, the boys are not well-off, rather they are the reverse of poor. The Amish has great treasure of kinship with big families to love children and respect the old. They have their own lands and houses. The self-sufficiency sustainable society without power, tap water and garage collection keeps going whatever happens such as economic crisis and war. To me, the Amish community seems to be an affluent than English.

AUTHOR: Chieko Tanemura (United States)