I find that street corners often provide insightful street images, primarily because that is where people most often converge.
In the case of this image, a man was selling food from a cart at the corner itself. People are walking towards him along one street, and away from him along another. I waited to shoot until the man carrying a piece of scaffolding was well along the street at left, followed in turn by three women, two of them wearing the distinctive Ecuadorian fedoras. Two of those women suddenly stopped to talk, one of them looking up at the building. Meanwhile two other women come towards the cart from the right hand street, completely unaware of what is going on just around the corner from them. The 19th century building on that corner was distinctive in its own right – it is a classic colonial style structure, painted four colors, and covered with advertising. This street photograph offers a slice of everyday life in Cuenca, offering us a look at not only what its streets look like, but feel like.