The Mint Tea Seller // Nov 14, 2009 // Comments [1]
I stood with my camera and I surveyed the stalls. Some sold cooked meat, some freshly squeezed fruit juices, others more contemporary items such as CD's.
Behind me were the Snake Charmers and the owners of tame monkeys, whose handlers would have their charges perform for the camera - and a fee of course.
I declined to photograph them on principle; I would rather the creatures were free in their own habitat to live a natural life.
I turned back towards a stall selling mint tea and other drinks. My eye was drawn by the fake plastic flower garlands which gave a symmetry to the stall.
I simply raised my camera without thought. As I looked through the lens, the stall's young owner made eye contact and that was my shot.
