I was not sure if this vendor sells bread, magazines or both. But he catches up on his reading while waiting for customers in the labyrinthine Fez medina. This image expresses such human values as diligence and curiosity. Morocco’s literacy rate is very low, which would make one wonder if this man can read the magazines in his hand. Perhaps he is just looking at the pictures. We will never know, so there is a good bit of mystery here as well. The fact that his hands and visible but his face is not brings the human value of mystery into this image as well. The expressive value of this image is essentially based on its abstract approach. The dark, hooded face is far more stimulating to the imagination than a fully illuminated face would be here.