Columbus Day or Indigenous People Day
Let’s just celebrate our diversity today and everyday! Today is a national holiday in Guatemala: Día de la Raza. So, I would …
Aide-de-camp Models Dressed As Indigenous Women
Can anybody help me understand why a country with a +55% population of indigenous Maya hires European-looking models to dress as Maya …
Guatemalan Indigenous Women
Here’s the follow-up photo to yesterday’s rear view mirror vista. In this picture, you can appreciate the different cortes worn by the …
Indigenous Guatemalan Pants
If you only browse the Indigenous category you will find 58 photos and hundreds more if you browse all 901 consecutive days …
Guatemalan Indigenous Painting from Patzum
What makes art art and what makes everything else handicrafts or folk-art? In Spanish art is arte and handicrafts are artesanías; kind …
Guatemalan Indigenous Singers
I find the singing of the indigenous people extremely haunting and touching, even though, they are singing evangelical hymns. To me this singing has another layer of pain and denouncing which is above the meaning of the words they sing; something much older and more mystical than the religious hymn brought by the European Christianity.
The indigenous women’s dress
The indigenous women’s dress is known as corte (the bottom part or skirt that is). The corte translates roughly as cut or …
Organic Guatemalan Christmas Decorations: White Poinsettias
As I have shared with you before, flores de Pascua or pascuas, are the most popular Christmas floral displays. Poinsettias are also …
Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day Children Portraits
During celebrations of La Virgen de Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe, on December 12, you can find gringa moms, Maya mamás, mestizo …
Makeshift photo studio for Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day
On December 12, children are dressed up to commemorate Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day. In the atrium of Parroquia de La …
Our Lady of Guadalupe Celebrations in Antigua Guatemala
As every year, on December 12, kids are dressed up to commemorate Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day. All around the atrium …
Maya Portraits — Young Woman from Santa María de Jesús
Many people believe that the Maya don’t like to be photographed or filmed. Well, if you browse the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto.com you …
Portrait of Q’eqchi Mayan Women
Some of you may or may not know that La Antigua Guatemala is located within Kackchikel territory, one of the largest Maya …
What’s Are Kaibiles?
Here are some bits and pieces I found on Wikipedia: The Kaibiles (singular: Kaibil) are a special operations force of the Military …
Guatemalan Food: Sancocho from 7 Caldos
If you have follow the daily updates from AntiguaDailyPhto you may know that I enjoy taking the most innocent and harmless photograph …
-13 Days to 9th Anniversary: Tres Generaciones
How would you caption this picture? We all have different approaches to documenting the quotidian life in the cities we happen to …
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Antigua Guatemala
Once again, as every December 12, Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe is observed in Antigua Guatemala. As I have said before, …
Meet Photographer Juan José de Jesús Yas
Japanese-born photographer Juan José de Jesús Yas (1844-1917), was one of the most renowned photographers of the late 1800, early 1900. Below …
Churreria La Huasteca
A town fair is not a fair without the churros. A churreria is the place where they make churros; [CHOOR-roh] Similiar to …
Portrait of Gonzalo de Cordova, Guatemala 1886
Today we are inaugurating the Antique Photographs thanks to a kind soul in Texas who donate a batch of photos taking between …
Magnolias Are Blooming Now in Antigua Guatemala
I read that the significance of the blooming of magnolias represents the end of Winter and beginning of Spring. Well, we’re about …
Historic Mother’s Day in Guatemala
First of all, I want to wish a Happy Guatemalan Mother’s Day to all the moms in my family and the world, …
Real Guatemala: The Typical Rural Women
These women from Ciudad Vieja are wearing what I would consider the typical dress code for rural Guatemala women, except, of course, …
12.12.12 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Antigua Guatemala
Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe in Antigua Guatemala As I have shared with you in previous years, in La Antigua Guatemala, …
Día de la Raza or Hispanidad
For this Día de la Raza I would like to share with you the faces of cultural resistance in a world where …
“Victims and Victimisers” Photo Exhibition at the FOTO 30 Photo Festival
This is one of the images with which I am participating this year in Guatemala’s largest photo festival, FOTO30, which spans the …
Drummer and Chirimilla Flute Player in Antigua Guatemala
The haunting Mayan sounds of the chirimilla flute and drums can still be heard at most religious and public events. Unfortunately, while …
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Antigua Guatemala
Today’s theme for The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12 in Antigua Guatemala will be photographic backdrops and photo …
Guatemalan Alienation
This year FOTO»30, Guatemala’s Photo September, a month full of photographic exhibits has as the encompassing theme the concept Nation. I remember …
Mother’s Day in Guatemala
Happy Guatemalan Mother’s Day! I especially wish a Happy Mother’s Day to my own madre. As Luna McCarthy mentioned in XelaDailyPhoto this …