This is probably the most staged photo someone has taken of me while I was in Africa. I walked up to this woman who was pounding/grinding corn and I asked her (through sign language/non verbal communication because she didn't speak English) if I could take her picture. She agreed and then I tried to ask her if she wanted to take my picture. She had never used (and possibly never seen) a camera picture before so I gave her a 10 minute lesson about looking at the picture in the back of the camera and pushing the button at the top to take a picture. So the woman had to try about 5 times to take this picture. In short, a very staged photo, but I like it anyway. I think the woman did a pretty good job for having never used a camera before.
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