Clearly tired, this farmer leans on his doorframe to watch the brief invasion of his village by nine American tourists. While one of these tourists, using two cameras simultaneously, made a number of photographs of him, he never moved or looked. He simply was not interested in having his image made but he had no reservations, either. Open doors are wonderful places to make portraits. They give you a black background, making the subject boldly stand out. They offer the subject a place to lean, or something to grab. Doors are symbolic, often making the subject into a guardian of his or her territory. This relaxed body language, however, makes him anything but a guardian. He is a farmer, purely and simply. This portrait tells us that.