Ruben Nilsson Photography
Svenska

The waiting floor

A repair workshop in afternoon light: dozens of pairs of shoes laid out on white tiles, each pair waiting its turn.

Two doorways of low autumn sun, white tiles to head height, and shoes from wall to wall. Not a display: a queue. Each pair had come in with something wrong and been set down in the order it would be looked at.

I stood in the doorway for a while before lifting the camera. The room already had its own order — heels together, laces tucked in, the whitest trainers nearest the light — and it seemed worth not disturbing.

A shoe repair workshop with white tiled walls and two bright doorways, dozens of pairs of shoes laid out in loose rows across the tiled floor, a red fire extinguisher on the wall and a dark silhouette in the right doorway.
The waiting floor 35 mm · f/11 · 13s · ISO 100

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