I stood over this tray of assorted knives, photographing them with a 14mm superwideangle lens. As I was shooting, the salesman jumped up from his chair and almost sprinted towards me, begging me to buy from him. I lifted the camera slightly and caught him in mid-stride, and mid sentence. It is an image full of energy, and even though the figure is slightly distorted by the extreme wideangle, he still looks real enough to me. Two other elements add context – a framed advertisement for razors, showing a fellow stroking his cheek, and a black robed woman carrying a large bag of goods out of the frame at the left. Ultimately, the image is built around the salesman, and his effort to sell all of us something very sharp.