Lengths of rawhide used in shoemaking dangle over a pair of empty shoes on the left, making a surrealistic stand-in for a human figure. On the right, strands of hide hanging in a dark doorway and a ghostly highlight complete the eerie framing of the shoemaker and his sleepy friend.
Behind her veil, a woman smiles back at the photographer. She wears lipstick and carries an elegant handbag. Behind her, a man regards the scene with apparent disapproval. The curators suspect that the woman is one of Scheuer’s traveling companions, who may have put on hijab in order to enter the Mosque.
