1961 BOLIVIA A shop in Cochabamba selling the traditional woman's hat. These white-painted tall-crowned straw hats have largely disappeared but in the early 1960s were worn in both town and countryside by the Quechua. Indigenous people from different parts of the country could be distinguished by the style of hat.

Camera Leica lll F with a collapsible Leitz f 5 cm 1:3.5 lens. Film Kodak Plus X Pan at F5.6 - 1/100 second. My film was cut from bulk rolls and loaded in a re-loadable leica cassette. It was a convenient low cost way of carrying film but not ideal. The film had to be loaded in the dark and static electricity always attracted dust which shows on the negative. Developed by hand in La Paz using May and Baker Promicrol at normal dilution.

Negative Bolivia 61-30-31 © Tony Morrison