A young woman gets some reading in while waiting for people to buy her Thanaka logs, which come from a small tree grown in Upper Burma. Women cut the bark off the log, grind it on a grinding stone, and add a few drops of water to make a yellow paste, which is then applied as makeup, just as she has. The paste dries to a yellow powder, which conditions the skin and provides protection from the sun. To tell this marketplace story, I needed three elements. The woman, who sells and uses the product herself, is the subject. The fact that she reads while selling is incongruous. The logs are the context for the image, as well as the face paint, which in this case is very subtle yet still visible in the detail. It was also important that I was able to relate this woman to her task against a black background, which provides good contrast.