This image works for many of the same reasons your portrait of the old Cambodian man was so successful.
(http://www.pbase.com/ruthemily/image/47438626 ) The eyes and facial expression lines in both images are evocative, but the key to both is, of course, rests in what is, or is not, present in the open mouths. The man had no teeth at all, while this woman has a mouthful of them, yet quite differently formed than what westerners might accept as normal. For her, they are as normal as the multiple hoops she wears in her ears, or the red stain on her forehead. All of which are wonderfully incongruent to us!
You abstract this lady and show us only the back of her head in two other images in this gallery Ruth. I was wondering what she looked like and now you have let me know. What a surprise! A smile even greater than her friend's and that wonderfully incongruent toothy smile! A wonderful travel portrait Ruth. You have a way of connecting with your subjects when they face the camera, and a way of telling us something about them when they do not.
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