Fursan obviously is a damn good photographer, but he's never told us how old he is or where he is. I have no idea where he made this picture, but the kid probably is a Buddhist novice. Since I don't know where this is I don't know whether or not what I saw in my two years in Thailand is the same here, but there the kid would have gone through his novice period and probably have become a normal citizen, not a full-time priest. If I'm right, this kid is close enough to the age when he'll shuck the robes and hop on a motorcycle, maybe with a girl behind him. In the meantime, with any luck at all he'll have learned a kind of morality that's becoming too rare in this world.
