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Sandwich, Huay Xai, Laos, 2005

Laos was once part of French Indochina. These baguettes are a legacy of those long-gone days. They sit in a case, along with all the sandwich fixings, in the same street side counter we saw in the previous image. Only now instead of shooting from inside the restaurant, I am out on the street. I waited until an employee began to make a sandwich for a customer, and photographed her as if she, too, was inside the case. I’ve abstracted her down to just a face and an elbow, and framed her face in the baguettes. The previous image was made from the viewpoint of the server. This photo is made from the view of the customer. Whenever photographing people working with other people, you can usually switch perspectives to tell a different story


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Phil Douglis16-Jun-2007 05:51
European cooking is not boring to Europeans. And Asian cooking is not boring to Asians. This photo,however, speaks more of the human than of the food.
Guest 16-Jun-2007 05:24
i miss the street food in south-east asia, why can't the dutch has bit more imagination in food, all they learn to eat is nothing but patate and chips, terribly boring
Donald Verger06-Jun-2005 09:06
oh, i do love this intimate! image!, voted, and i love the wavy edge of the shelf and the stone work forming the bottom of the window... and the pearl! great eye, great moment captured!
Phil Douglis04-Mar-2005 18:59
You are right, Marek. Layers make photographs. They also make good sandwiches. (I'll let the pun rest.)
Guest 04-Mar-2005 16:34
I like the layered effect -- like a sandwich. A head sandwich by the looks of it ;-)
Phil Douglis28-Feb-2005 22:58
Good observation, Dandan. You can't be any more squeezed than she is.
Guest 28-Feb-2005 08:34
This one makes me feel that this worker is sandwiched. By the working space? It doesn’t really matter, but I can feel that he has been tight up, no place to grow…
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