Tim
I like your work a lot (even or maybe I work in a totally different genre) and when looking at your artisan serie, on some image, I felt that you made some crops to have the images more active.
Meanwhile beeing a reportage-type photography, it has some very nice abstractions, at the
shoemaker, the 7th image, la ceramique dans le four, etc.
Another point I appreciate is the shallow depth of field in some shots - isn' it making a bit of abstraction as well? Good counterpoint to todays (digital) overall-sharpness, giving anything the same importance, and reducing a picture-idea to USM-numbers, only. A bit harsh, I agree ;-)
The warm color cast beeing in nearly all the shots leads to the question, if you intend these professions to show as lost ones, documentating them for the last possible time?