A young girl staffs a street stall selling floral offerings just outside of the Hindu Temple in Yangon's Indian Quarter. Her face is painted heavily with Thanaka paste, traditional makeup worn by Burmese women and children as sun block and to make the skin healthy. She looks at my camera without showing emotion of any kind, which was very typical of Burmese. Many are not yet aware of the custom of smiling for the camera, which usually works to my advantage as a photographer. My wideangle lens spreads the scene for me, allowing me to flank the young girl on both sides with offerings yet still make her face large enough to see the incongruous detail of the Thanaka paste. The offerings, which are closer to my camera than they look, provide a foreground layer that gives the image its context. The middle ground layer holds the subject – the detached, painted child, crouching in the shadows. The background layer is subtle but still important, a row of bars symbolizing a barrier that may well keep this child in this place as she grows into adulthood.