http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/contact_sheet/25581 Welcome to the world of rural prostitution, a world you wouldn’t want to get too close to. Neither as a sex worker nor as a client. A very rough paradigm where political correctness and human respect as we know it are not conceivable. A photographic reportage in the last rural brothels of the Dominican Republic. Images by Giovanni Savino http://www.lightstalkers.org en-us http://images.lightstalkers.org/avatars/44554/Headshot_BW_copy_small.JPG http://www.lightstalkers.org/Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047502/Habitacion_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl on the door of her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047502'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047502 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:46:17 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047502 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047502/Habitacion_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl on the door of her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047502'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047506/Juana-la-Talibana_small.jpg' /><br />The windowless cubicles where the prostitutes live and work in a rural Dominican brothel. This otherwise timeless picture has a social and historical reference in it. The nickname of the girl in cubicle number three is Juana la talibana (Juana the taliban ), demonstrating, perhaps as a surprise, that at least some international news are heard and absorbed even in this God-forsaken, energy-less, phone-less, TV-less corner near the Haitian border,<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047506'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047506 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:46:20 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047506 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047506/Juana-la-Talibana_small.jpg' /><br />The windowless cubicles where the prostitutes live and work in a rural Dominican brothel. This otherwise timeless picture has a social and historical reference in it. The nickname of the girl in cubicle number three is Juana la talibana (Juana the taliban ), demonstrating, perhaps as a surprise, that at least some international news are heard and absorbed even in this God-forsaken, energy-less, phone-less, TV-less corner near the Haitian border,<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047506'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047496/La-Mancha-es-mi-amor_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl rests on her bed<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047496'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047496 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:52:01 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047496 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047496/La-Mancha-es-mi-amor_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl rests on her bed<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047496'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047523/Big-girl_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl in her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047523'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047523 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:52:18 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047523 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047523/Big-girl_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl in her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047523'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047539/Billiards-Cueros-Fututina-S_small.jpg' /><br />Two clients smoke at the bar in a Dominican Fututina (brothel)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047539'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047539 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:52:47 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047539 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047539/Billiards-Cueros-Fututina-S_small.jpg' /><br />Two clients smoke at the bar in a Dominican Fututina (brothel)<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047539'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047547/Bra_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl on the door of her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047547'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047547 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:46:54 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047547 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047547/Bra_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl on the door of her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047547'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047550/Billiards-Fututina_small.jpg' /><br />Clients play pool killing time in a Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047550'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047550 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:53:16 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047550 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047550/Billiards-Fututina_small.jpg' /><br />Clients play pool killing time in a Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047550'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047571/Living_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl in her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047571'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047571 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:47:11 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047571 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047571/Living_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl in her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047571'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047562/el-piso_small.jpg' /><br />Young Dominican woman refreshing herself in an unbearably hot afternoon on a blue concrete floor.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047562'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047562 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:56:17 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047562 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047562/el-piso_small.jpg' /><br />Young Dominican woman refreshing herself in an unbearably hot afternoon on a blue concrete floor.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047562'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047514/Cueros-de-mala-muerte_small.jpg' /><br />Working girls display their uninhibited behavior for a perspective client <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047514'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047514 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:56:02 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047514 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047514/Cueros-de-mala-muerte_small.jpg' /><br />Working girls display their uninhibited behavior for a perspective client <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047514'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047583/Low-expectations_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl waits for clients in a rural brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047583'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047583 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:56:46 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047583 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047583/Low-expectations_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl waits for clients in a rural brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047583'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047607/the-kiss_small.jpg' /><br />It is very unusual for a working girl to kiss a client, I suspect this kiss was stolen, in the backyard of a Dominican brothel, taking advantage of the photographer's presence.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047607'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047607 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:57:13 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047607 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047607/the-kiss_small.jpg' /><br />It is very unusual for a working girl to kiss a client, I suspect this kiss was stolen, in the backyard of a Dominican brothel, taking advantage of the photographer's presence.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047607'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047532/prohibido_small.jpg' /><br />" Entry prohibited with firearms and cold steel". A mural in a rural Dominican brothel where is very common for clients to be carrying guns or at least daggers or machetes. They are supposed to leave the weapon in consignment with the owner to pick it up upon termination of the sexual encounter. Not many clients comply to this rule and it is very common for jealousy related homicides to happen in a Fututina.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047532'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047532 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:57:22 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047532 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047532/prohibido_small.jpg' /><br />" Entry prohibited with firearms and cold steel". A mural in a rural Dominican brothel where is very common for clients to be carrying guns or at least daggers or machetes. They are supposed to leave the weapon in consignment with the owner to pick it up upon termination of the sexual encounter. Not many clients comply to this rule and it is very common for jealousy related homicides to happen in a Fututina.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047532'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047613/FUTUTINA-BOOK---006_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl resting at the bar in a rural Dominican brothel.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047613'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047613 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:49:00 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047613 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047613/FUTUTINA-BOOK---006_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl resting at the bar in a rural Dominican brothel.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047613'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047574/Laughing-in-the-brothel_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl sits at the bar in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047574'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047574 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:57:59 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047574 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047574/Laughing-in-the-brothel_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl sits at the bar in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047574'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047568/In-her-room_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl in her room<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047568'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047568 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:49:34 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047568 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047568/In-her-room_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl in her room<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047568'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047553/Colleagues_small.jpg' /><br />Two working girls play around outside their living cubicles<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047553'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047553 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:49:34 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047553 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047553/Colleagues_small.jpg' /><br />Two working girls play around outside their living cubicles<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047553'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047565/cuero-gallera_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl in her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047565'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047565 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:49:34 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047565 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047565/cuero-gallera_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl in her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047565'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047559/La-cabaretera_small.jpg' /><br />Unrestrained moment in the Fututina between a working girl and a client<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047559'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047559 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:59:19 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047559 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047559/La-cabaretera_small.jpg' /><br />Unrestrained moment in the Fututina between a working girl and a client<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047559'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047586/pool-table_small.jpg' /><br />Two girls spend a lazy afternoon chatting near a pool table in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047586'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047586 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:49:55 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047586 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047586/pool-table_small.jpg' /><br />Two girls spend a lazy afternoon chatting near a pool table in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047586'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047577/Married-for-an-hour_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl and client in a rural brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047577'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047577 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:49:55 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047577 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047577/Married-for-an-hour_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl and client in a rural brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047577'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047589/cuero_small.jpg' /><br />A working girl portrait on her bed in a Dominican rural brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047589'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047589 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:49:55 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047589 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047589/cuero_small.jpg' /><br />A working girl portrait on her bed in a Dominican rural brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047589'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047580/cuereria_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of two working girls in their living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047580'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047580 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:00:31 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047580 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047580/cuereria_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of two working girls in their living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047580'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047601/Waiting-for-clients_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl waiting for clients on the door of a billiard room at night<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047601'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047601 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:00:50 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047601 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047601/Waiting-for-clients_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl waiting for clients on the door of a billiard room at night<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047601'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047592/on-bed_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of two working girls resting naked on their bed in a Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047592'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047592 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:01:12 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047592 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047592/on-bed_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of two working girls resting naked on their bed in a Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047592'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047595/Maquillage_small.jpg' /><br />Prostitute doing her makeup prior to receiving a client<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047595'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047595 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:50:16 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047595 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047595/Maquillage_small.jpg' /><br />Prostitute doing her makeup prior to receiving a client<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047595'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047610/it-is-a-wonderful-life_small.jpg' /><br />A moment of "romance" in the Fututina between a working girl and a client<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047610'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047610 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:02:04 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047610 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047610/it-is-a-wonderful-life_small.jpg' /><br />A moment of "romance" in the Fututina between a working girl and a client<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047610'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047598/mirror_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl in her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047598'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047598 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:50:23 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047598 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047598/mirror_small.jpg' /><br />Portrait of a working girl in her living cubicle in a rural Dominican brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047598'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047604/Desarmame_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl waits for a client outside a brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047604'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047604 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:50:23 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047604 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047604/Desarmame_small.jpg' /><br />Working girl waits for a client outside a brothel<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047604'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047616/Curiosity-_small.jpg' /><br />Curiosity might eventually kill the cat.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047616'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047616 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:02:52 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047616 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1047616/Curiosity-_small.jpg' /><br />Curiosity might eventually kill the cat.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1047616'>view full-size image</a> Giovanni Savino