PHOTOGRAPHER Wong Maye-E documents the plight of a Filipina domestic worker in Singapore in a photo essay entitled "Day Off".

"Day Off: Photographs of foreign domestic workers in Singapore, a traveling exhibition, October-December 2003 What do maids do beyond cleaning our houses? Can good care-taking be strictly professional with no emotional attachment? Should it? What happens to a maid who is newly-arrived? And above all, what does a maid do on her days off? Six photographers - incidentally, all of them women - went looking for some answers. Their brief was to expand our understanding of the lives maids lead here. At the time of their arrival, most maids have few resources and friends, and have to cope with missing their families. But they are also inventive."

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