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02-JUN-2010

Breather, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2010

I found this man unloading heavy material from a truck parked on the streets of Santa Fe. It is evening, and I have the feeling that he had been working for hours in the hot sun. He grasps his bright red cart, wearing heavy, well-used gloves on his hands. As he stepped back beneath an arcade for a breather, I made this portrait of him. I exposed for his white shirt, causing his face to fall into the cool shadows, making him anonymous, and symbolic of all who earn a livelihood as laborers.

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Phil Douglis06-Jul-2010 18:17
One reason why I enjoy making pictures of people at work so much is that I have been teaching business communicators (PR people and the like) visual literacy for the last 40 years. I am still doing a regular column for the magazine of the International Association of Business Communicators, and a blog for them as well. I also do a weekly blog on visual literacy for myragan.com, a business communicators web site. I use such as images as this one to illustrate the points I am trying to make. Thanks, Iris, for your kind words.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)06-Jul-2010 04:47
It is the labor of the working class that has made this nation great. You give them much deserved credit is this image and in other images throughout your gallery.
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