i’m often told i take a lot of images of hands and feet......it’s true i have since the very beginning when i had no idea what i was doing..it was instinctual....
later on i have learned that i'm a photographer of gestures, nuances, subtle and not so subtle expressions...
parts of the body can inform or tell a story about a person, sometimes just as much as an image with a face
i sat with this very old man in the town of Almolonga , Guatemala, trying to piece together a conversation with my newly acquired spanish at the time.. he worked long hours for most of his life, and often barefoot...up in the hills outside of town.. you can see by his hardened dry feet, and his toes that have seemingly taken years of beating and the cane now held just off to the side that this man has walked a million miles... so much history in those feet.. Where have they been? the story lies in the darkened areas of dry patches and aging,. i remember this man like yesterday.
