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from Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com)
It was definitely hot, but I think it was exhaustion. Most of the people working in this place get up at 3AM, load up their trucks, and head out. By 11AM, it's hot and they're exhausted. They sell a hundred dollars of vegetables and head home.

In a rural Mexican market, I saw an old (70?) woman, barefoot, sit down, and put out her bucket of limes. They were probably worth $2 for all of them, maybe less. I couldn't photograph her. She wouldn't have let me, but I thought it was the most depressing thing I had ever seen. The market is once a week, and she is making $2. How is it worth it to go from the hills (where most of the people in the market live) into town to make $2?

So these people are living the most marginal existence, they let me photograph them (well the woman looking at me did, she was the only one aware), and I walked on. They go back to their farm and their 3AM wakeups.

I think the man on the left is important, he adds some depth to the photo and his headless body yet more uncertainty about where it's all going...

Thanks for the comments.

(posted 8631 days ago)

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