Small businesses are plenty in Tanzania, either as a means of supplementary or primary family income. In some cases the product or service being sold acts as both the merchandise and the sign advertising its sale. In this photographic series Kiwanga appropriates ethnographic mise-en- scene photography from the turn of the last century. Instead of placing human subjects in front of a fabricated backdrop she asks the small business owners to hold a white sheet behind their modest enterprise. In doing so the sheet shields their bodies from the photographic gaze. Furthermore, the white sheet functions to frame the objects of their trade. It functions both as a frame within a frame and as a neutral background against which to assess the tools and material of their trade. However, the frame value is always large enough so as to never de-contextualise the mise-en-scene.