Person at Work: Making Glass Crafts (2B.1)

The setting for this session is a traditional glass workshop in Hebron, the largest Palestinian city in the south of the West Bank. Two people are making glass crafts by fusing fragments of waste glass in a furnace. Incandescent paste of melted glass is gathered at the end of a pipe, and the artisan blows into the other end so as to create round shapes like pots, vases, balls and bells. An interesting subject. Light was quite low, coming only from the front window of the workshop. I felt quite comfortable with the 50mm prime lens, but setting the right aperture was definitely not a first guess. Looking back at the photos, I think I could have experimented few more points of view, trying to catch the moment of blowing from different angles. Perhaps this session could have yielded stronger results in color rather than BW: showing the red-glowing glass paste would have added some drama.