May 10th is Mother’s Day in Guatemala, so I decided to surprise a few mothers with portrait prints. Most Guatemalans take their mothers to dine in their favorite restaurant. I give photos away. Happy Mother’s Day wherever you are! As I said before, the synergy created by the act of giving prints of the portraits … Read more
This is the end of the daily updates of AntiguaDailyPhoto.com; it’s been 4,384 days since our first post on May 1st, 2006. There were over 16,399 comments made through the years and over 5.1 million visits. With over 4,000 pages of content AntiguaDailyPhoto.com is the number 1 resource in English about everything Guatemala. You can … Read more
Today’s image is the portrait of Maya girl holding her candid portrait. Giving away these portrait prints is the best gift for me as I receive such wonderful smiles and sólo buenas vibras, only good vibes in the process. The synergy created by the act of giving prints of the portraits made on the streets … Read more
Dónde come uno, comen tres. Where one eats, three can eat. Guatemalan buñuelos, one of the comfort foods for December, are kind like round French toast and they are served with a lot hot syrup made from water, sugar, star anise, cinnamon sticks, and all-spice. ¡Buen provecho! By the way, how would you translate “buen … Read more
Recently I shared with you a photograph of three boys having a blast with a portable wooden staircase on a platform and my thoughts on how imagination is the best game for children in Guatemala and the world over, really. Well, today I am sharing a fast capture of about half a dozen Maya girls … Read more
Last week, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court sided with the Guatemalan weavers and their copyrights to intellectual property of their weavings. Now congress will have to make news laws to protect their intellectual property even further. But even, now, the courts are siding with the weavers. Follow the the Twitter account @TejedorasGuate to keep an eye on … Read more
Market days or Días de mercado in Santa María de Jesús fall on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, although you can find vendors at the mercado everyday. On días de mercado the activity and the offer of vegetable is much fresher and larger. Santa María de Jesús and San Antonio Aguascalientes are two of my favorite … Read more
Here’s a portrait of a K’iche’ family from Xela visiting the different villages of Antigua Guatemala. I captured them here while posing for a family portrait right outside the Iglesia de San Juan del Obispo. The two little girls were true models with poses and all. By the way, even though we normally refer to … Read more
Today was a very good day. This morning I lead a group of 11 volunteers through the streets of Antigua Guatemala. During the photo walk we encountered a beautiful Maya woman whom I had photographed months ago and only now I was able to give her printed photographed. After the photo walk, I stopped to … Read more
On the weekends you can enjoy traditional Guatemalan marimba music thanks to this family of Kakchiquel musicians. Of course, with the new and ugly regulations on Calle del Arco, who knows where you can find them. I will look for them tomorrow and I will update. this post with their new location. Stay tuned!
Guatemala’s National Telephone Company was so bad that land lines only represent less than 5% of all the telephone lines in Guatemala. On top of that, it used to be so expensive and with waiting periods of years to get a telephone line. Lucky us that cellular telephony came to be and soon enough Guatemala … Read more
One more entry for the 5-day countdown to the 11th anniversary of AntiguaDailyPhoto on May 1st with the miniseries of street photography slices of daily life through out Antigua Guatemala. This is not the first time I share the urban street style of young Maya people, which is quite interesting to look at the juxtaposition … Read more
As I have said before, I find the singing of the Maya people extremely haunting and touching, even though, they are singing evangelical hymns. To me this singing has an additional layer of pain and denouncing which is above the meaning of the words they sing; something much older and more mystical than the religious … Read more
This is a behind the scenes picture of a recent photo session I helped to set up for a photographer from abroad. Believe it or not, this was one of the most difficult photo sessions I have organised. For the photo shoot we needed a Maya woman, a horse, a farmer and coffee. Simple right? … Read more
This portrait of the young part of a Mayan family was made during a private photo walk through the villages of Antigua Guatemala. At first, the young Maya girls didn’t want to collaborate even though the mother, not shown in the picture, was more willing to have some pictures made of the family. So, we … Read more