Dinner Hour, Fatima

This is Juanito. Juanito is the youngest son in the family that fed me for a week at the mountain school that I went to in late-January. Juanito has a six-month old niece who sometimes sends him into fits of jealousy, but otherwise he is always charmed and always wants to know everyone's name, even though he never remembers. "Como te llama, vos?"

This kid on the left in the green shirt: I don't know his name but I'm partial to him, in part because all the other kids his age make fun of him and try to force him out of the pictures, and he weathers it with a certain quiet dignity. On this particular day he and his friend/brother asked me to take their photo, and when I agreed they very quickly moved together and adjusted for the shot. Check out the subtle pinky hand-hold. I love that the little kid in the red shirt, all of three or four years old, looks like an old man. He's dressed for retirement.

The girl on the left asked for a photo, and the girl on the right was certain that she was out of the frame. Check out lefty's identical pose in every photo.



Juanito is everywhere you turn in Fatima.

Not sure who this other kid is.


Kevin is Juanito's older brother, and he showed up with what appears to be a box of cigarettes, wanting to be in all the photos.



More than anything, Kevin wanted to be in his own photo.


These kids wanted bike shots.

Once again they didn't want to let dignified pinky kid (orange shirt) in the photo.

When he finally got in, he also got bunny ears.

One of the kids wanted to take a photo, and when he did he accidentally cut off dignified orange shirt pinky kid's head.

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