Nope It's Real

Creating this book wasn't in our plan and staying two months in red light districts was definitely never part of our plan. However when you stare reality in the face or in our case wake up next door to it; you have the chance to change your plans. We didn't do anything drastic or noteworthy we never busted down a brothel door or planted secret cameras in fact our response was shockingly small- we simply decided to make ourselves available. We shrank down our judgments and walked up willing to be fully there to listen to speak and to understand. The voices of the women sounded surprisingly like our sisters and mothers the voices of the men like our fathers and brothers. We make this book for ourselves in order to remember these people and to remember the face of our God whom we saw in the midst of it. These pages of art are our reactions to the darkness and the heaviness as well as the resounding joy and forgiveness that live in these two countries.