It's Still Life

I took this photo five years ago in the Usaquen District of Bogotá, Colombia. He was selling jewellery – speaking with customers in an easy, comfortable way, his back resting against the white-washed wall of a churchyard. I remember thinking this was probably the most visually perfect man I’d ever seen.

And then close by, a mother slapped her young child who let out a long fierce cry, and the man’s expression turned to incinerating fury. I took the photo, and forever linked him with that moment of transformation.

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