Exploring Ua Pou, one of the Marquesas Archipelago’s six inhabited
islands, I stumbled upon this young woman as she was pounding popoi in her open
kitchen. Popoi, a staple food of the Marquesas, is prepared mixing and cooking
fresh and fermented breadfruit and pounding it.
Having photographed her at
work, I asked her to let me take a portrait of her. Not worrying for a minute
about her untidy hair, dress, hands, and wrists, she let me shoot her in the
raw, unafraid to show her real self—a woman happily interrupted during a messy
activity.
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