CORN SALESMAN

In Hama, Syria, being a street vendor is honorable, espciatlly the humble ones who eschew the use of loudspeakers to inform the residents of the neighborhood of their arrival. This corn salesman, perched on a metal patio chair in the flatbed of his early model Nissan truck—that he waited two years to purchase from the government—lets his customers know that he has four kinds of corn grown in four very distinct types of soil for various flavors.