Benizi Santamaria, Step Father (PEOPLE 2024)

A teenage boy in the Philippines holds the ladder while he waits for his American Stepfather to pluck coconuts. I framed this photo to exclude the tree but to include the foot of the father here unseen. Taken at 135mm at F1.8 and converted to mono with Nik's Silver Effex.

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