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07-DEC-2016

Work break, Public Market, Goa, India, 2016

This marketplace is housed in a large hall, filled dozens of stalls selling produce and household goods. There is a balcony circling the entire length and width of the hall, and that is where I spent my time here as a photographer. Using my long telephoto lens, I could zoom in on both vendors and shoppers as they sold and purchased goods. This young man was neither a vendor nor a shopper. He was part of a family enterprise that sold fruits and vegetables here. I caught him as he took a well-deserved break from his work before heading off to school. He is both sitting and lying upon a pile of bundles in the back of the family’s stall. I watched him from the balcony as he tried to find a comfortable position on the makeshift bedding. He rubs his head with one hand as studies the screen of a phone in his other hand. His backpack rests next to him. Although scene is a busy one, it’s colors pull it together as an expressive image. A stained brown tarp covers half of the white bundles. He wears a blue shirt and lies upon a red garment. A crate sits near his head, while vividly colored Indian fabrics are used to make the bundles at the left hand edge of the frame. His brown pants and shiny black shoe seem perfectly at home in this setting. His body language forms a diagonal focal point that ties the entire image together, and making it one of my favorite photographs from this journey.

FujiFilm X-T1
1/160s f/5.0 at 50.0mm iso640 full exif

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Phil Douglis22-Feb-2017 06:02
This is one of the most expressive images I made on this trip. The incongruity of the setting itself, the fact that he is lost in technology in the midst of a very traditional form of commerce, his utterly intent fixation on his phone, the striking contrasts in color, texture and shapes, and the relaxed body language all speak to the point of the picture itself: he is on his own journey here, one that has little do with the space surrounding him.
Tim May14-Feb-2017 21:47
He is on a phone - the whole world is getting connected -
Iris Maybloom (irislm)13-Feb-2017 17:26
Wonderful environmental image replete with expressiveness and human values.
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