✪ The dignity that comes with manual labor.

For a hundred years the villiage of Oeschberg near Bern has featured an old-folks-home for Knechte und Mägde: farmhands and maids, who served on farms all their lives. Now they are spending their latter years working for themselves at the home. Photographer Andreas Reeg made some impressive pictures of them.





I don't want to romanticize old-fashioned ways of living, but obviously any snotty little rapper driving his tribal tattoos around in some pimped-up Hummer, will in his hart of harts know that these people have a dignity and strength of character that he will never have.



And crafts are technology too!!!