The Lat people are a Central Highlands hill tribe. They are practicing Christians. I made this photograph just outside of the village church. He never took notice of me, or my camera. Many people often do not think I am taking their pictures because I always shoot from waist level, using a flip up viewfinder. They see me looking down into the viewfinder, but because I am not looking “through” the camera at them, and not masking my face with the camera (which can be threatening to some), I am able to get some very natural responses. He was probably waiting to see what I was going to do, and had no idea that I had already done it, again and still again. I was able to get a perfect response here, a mixture of boredom and sadness, and I link it to the primitive clapboard church and the fragile palm sapling he touches repeatedly.