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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Forty-Four: Photographing human response – gesture, body language, and expressions > Young salesman, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2006
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25-DEC-2006

Young salesman, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2006

I found this young man selling shoes in the souk. He seems to take my camera for granted. His eyes look away, towards the shoes. His gesture – a scratch on the ear – might signify puzzlement. I used less than a 150mm focal length, so I must have only been a few feet away when I made this image. Yet there were many shoppers on the street with me. It is possible he never saw me -- his mind seems far away.

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Phil Douglis21-Jan-2007 18:25
I like your way of seeing, Rammaa -- this is indeed a place of bargaining. You are projecting him into a sales situation. I found him waiting for a sale, however -- he is lost in his own thoughts. You show us here how each viewer can bring his or her own imagination to bear on the subject.
Phil Douglis18-Jan-2007 19:59
Thanks, Ceci, for your wonderful observations. Thanks, too, for the context. I don't know much about shoes, aside from one is a left shoe, the other a right. Glad you find his wares sensible and that this image brings back memories of a shoe you wore 44 years ago. The shoes are speaking, at least to you!
Guest 18-Jan-2007 05:26
Oh if these shoes could speak, what tales they would tell! What a relaxed and laconic picture, with its lovely colors, expression, and subject matter. I like his sensible, low-heeled ware, and specially the sandal stuffed into the orange woven pair which reminds me of some I bought for next to nothing in Delhi, and wore for a year back in 1963 -- I can't recall loving footgear as much, ever since.
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