Maid Takes a Break

I acquired this photo without this woman knowing I had taken it, from inside a car. It's always hard to aim a camera at a subject in real life and not somehow disrespect their dignity trying to "capture" them. It's a risk that always creates a tension inside my body. I imagine no soul wants to be made into an object to be "viewed". I have no idea what this woman was thinking at this moment, but she seemed tired, uninspired and perhaps a bit forlorn. Her candy snack may have provided the only spike of interest she had felt in a blur of maid shift tedium. Or she may have been absolutely at peace with life and I the fool for imagining such things of her.