Street Vendor Huts

On Austurstræti in Reykjavík there are often a few portable huts where vendors sell knitwear, jewelry and other hand-crafts.

Before they had the huts, vendors would just sit on the street, often in near-freezing weather. The hut pictured below was occupied by a jewelry seller who didn't let the darkness stop him—he had several battery-operated lights illuminating his wares. When I took the shot below (at about 7:00 P.M.) he was just starting to pack up.

In just a few minutes he had finished and he strapped his case onto his bike and was gone.