Old man's work, Kabul.

Posted by Phil Sparrow (Perth, Australia) on 23 January 2008 in People & Portrait.

In Kabul recently, as I walked down the Pul-i-Surkh bazaar, I came across this old man sorting scrap metal. I sat and talked to him, and he didn't mind his photo being taken. 'Ask for money', someone called, but he demurred. 'Why should I ask?' he said.

Nikon D70s
1/100 second
F/4.5
50 mm

scrap
merchant