Baggage

On November 24th, 2006, I traveled to the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California, to observe and document how people were spending their time on “the busiest shopping day of the year,” the day after Thanksgiving. To narrow down my focus, I decided to photograph people and the bag or bags that they were carrying. I chose to focus on the bag because the bag a person carries can lead to many assumptions about the person carrying the bag.

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