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TO MARKET, IN MEDELLIN

A big tongue is a point of pride for this dry goods grocer (top left); A cook fans his fire for the next round of pinchos (top right); I don’t remember what this man was looking at, but I liked his glasses (bottom left); a man calling people into a mattress store takes a break (bottom right). 

The fish market, Medellin. 

Card games and chess on shop countertops. Colombians do neighborly well. 

(These read from left to right, top to bottom) In the peluquería, some locals have their hair cut, braided, and manicured; a woman waits on a bag of onions grown outside the city, where she lives; a cacophony of bird, kitten, and puppy sounds and smells fill the air in front of these “pet stores;” a man scratches a lottery ticket as he waits for a tinto, black coffee sweetened with sugar cane; a woman greets an approaching family member in the marketplace, her grandson notices me taking a photo; a man catches me taking a photo of him enjoying a mid-morning snack of sancocho, a soup made with different types of meat, potato, plantain, and yuca; a grocer reads the paper while business is slow; for 1 mil pesos (1,000 Colombian Pesos, worth about 50 cents), this man kindly allowed a photo. 

An electrician in his shop of used and spare parts, Medellin, Colombia.

Walking the streets in Medellin, street vendors and shop owners were all hard at work. 

DANIELA

I met her in a little historic town of Colombia called Salamina Caldas. Its by far the most beautiful town I’ve been to in Colombia. Soon I will be posting a blog dedicated to the town.

LEND YOUR LEG

Today is April 4th, International day for mine awareness. Here are some of the pictures I helped out with for the Ad Campaign. So go ahead and roll up !! Here’s the link to the website where you can show support www.lendyourleg.com