Daily life in this Mekong Delta city can be physically punishing for some of its workers. This young woman carries huge bundles of wood on her back from boat to shore, hour after hour and day after day. I never saw her flinch. I framed this image around counter diagonals – the wood on her shoulder flows from the upper right hand corner down into her arms, while the piles of wood already on the dock reach diagonally from the lower right corner, pointing towards her stoic face. Meanwhile, the railing of the dock slashes diagonally across the middle of the image, separating the wood on her back from the wood on the ground. The narrow frame of my vertically composed wideangle image compresses these diagonals, implying the tremendous pressure of the weight she carries on her shoulders.