Waiting in Cusco
Cusco Peru 2003
When you don’t have a car or you only have one car, sooner or later you will be waiting on a street corner somewhere. The patiently waiting woman, huddled in the doorway of a colonial building, shyly turned her head when she noticed my camera. In another country her counterpart might have started to gesture or yell at me, but the culture in Peru is one of restraint and control. The most aggressive a street vendor might be is to stand and silently hold out the trinkets, not moving, just waiting patiently. That technique always worked on me.