Protecting her eyes from the bright Asian sun with an umbrella, a woman does some trimming in a Mekong village market. I was not as interested in what she was doing or what she looked like as I was by luminosity of the backlighting, which passes through the umbrella and abstracts the woman by turning her into a silhouette. A market is a place of thousand small acts happening at once. As a photographer, I try to find those acts, do whatever I can to isolate them and abstract them, and make them symbolize the nature of the marketplace itself.