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shoe shine stand and balloon vendor

5th
Jul. × ’09
At the foot of the tallest building (the ten-story, vacant, towering concrete shell of an edifice pictured below) in Iquitos, a man has erected a shoe-shine stand made of painted plywood. With a population of mostly sandal and flip-flop wearing people, the tradition of shoe-shining appears to be mostly lost here.  Like all  vendors in the streets, the man with the shoe-shine stand [...]
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