David - Shop Manager

From the "Shop that Time Forgot Series"

 

Shop manager David looks through the store for a particular type of fluorescent tube (lightbulb) for a customer.

 

This shop in my village has been in the same family since 1929. Its a shop were computers haven't yet been invented, orders and sales are written in a ledger and you can still buy hardware measured in imperial not metric. To quote a fellow villager:

 

"We were down the back of the shop when we moved to the village looking for screws for a very old Singer sewing machine and I noticed that some of the boxes holding the screws and nails were marked in shillings and pence!"

 

The Shop That Time Forgot flickr set

 

I took this portrait of David using a Mamiya C330 TLR medium Format FIlm camera. it was so dark in the store with the only light coming through a rooflight to Dav'ds left that I needed a two second exposure.

 

More portraits of real people living in Southwest Scotland can be viewed on my main website.

 

Please note, Flickr seems to soften my images on uplaod, this image was pin sharp in photoshop.

 

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