When I first made this image, I thought of it as a generational portrait of three Pingyao women. But when I examined it more closely later, a fourth person comes into play. The woman at right carries a bottle in one hand, letting us know that her other hand can only be holding the hand of a toddler. The child is there -- we can just see one of its feet peeking out behind the woman at center. Some photographs can tell a multitude of stories. It all depends upon how we hard we look at them. In this case, a group portrait becomes a story of the street, all because of three tiny details.