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In this emotional interpretive image, I tell the story of age, vulnerability, and anxiety. This elderly man was the last to board a truck bound for Ravelo. He did not have enough strength to push himself fully into the truck. Here, he stands in its entrance, hanging on to its steel door with one hand, and nervously rubs his taut face with the other. He wonders what will happen when the door closes. Will he find a place to stand? Or will he be ordered off the truck? I continued to photograph him as he waited. Eventually the driver shoved him back into the truck, the door slammed shut, and it drove off into the dust. We are left with this memory of him, his vulnerability and anxiety clearly expressed by his face and his hands.
Image Copyright © held by Phil Douglis, The Douglis Visual Workshops