article_snippet.sent: Photographer Ken Hermann said that in addition to language barriers and the heat of Kolkata making communication complicated and shooting at certain times difficult, another adversity Photographer Ken Hermann faced was taking portraits of the female flower sellers.
article_snippet.sent: I wanted to shoot the sellers -- the male and the female sellers.
article_snippet.sent: But none of the female flower sellers wished to be a part of Photographer Ken Hermann's project, so Photographer Ken Hermann focused only on those who were interested in and comfortable with having none of the female flower sellers portrait taken.
article_snippet.sent: Photographer Ken Hermann did not create the flower sellers' portraits directly inside the market is because of the hectic atmosphere.
article_snippet.sent: It's impossible to shoot at the market, especially if you want a clean and quiet background, because there's so much going on," Photographer Ken Hermann said.
article_snippet.sent: All the other sellers -- All the other sellers are so busy, so just convincing All the other sellers to go near the river to get All the other sellers done and spend maybe 15 minutes of All the other sellers time was a challenge," Photographer Ken Hermann said.
article_snippet.sent: Photographer Ken Hermann said viewers must not make assumptions about the socioeconomic status of the sellers, nor should viewers view the sellers through a fixed, rigid lens regarding the behaviors and roles associated with gender.
article_snippet.sent: Noticeable throughout the portraits is that none of the sellers is smiling, which is usually a behavior people tend to exhibit when in the presence of a camera.