It’s Lunch Time At The Atrium of Compañía de Jesús Building
The atrium of the former Compañía de Jesús building is a favourite spot to have lunch during sunny days as well as …
The atrium of the former Compañía de Jesús building is a favourite spot to have lunch during sunny days as well as …
Every once in a while, the readers of AntiguaDailyPhoto participate in a simple creative exercise: to invent a creative dialogue or conversation …
This is yet another popular vista at Parque Central, artisans making handicrafts to sell on the spot or on Calle del Arco. …
With this selection of the hermanas cargadoras, the women who carry the smaller floats of the Virgin Mary or other virgins for …
I came across a group of catholic women who were raising funds for their church. One of the women carry an image …
Today we begin a series of aerial vistas of Antigua Guatemala. First of all, let’s thank Nelo Mijangos for sharing this wonderful …
For this Día de la Raza I would like to share with you the faces of cultural resistance in a world where …
This is one of the images with which I am participating this year in Guatemala’s largest photo festival, FOTO30, which spans the …
After having watched this woman and countless others take baby steps while walking very carefully over the cobblestone streets of Antigua Guatemala …
Finally Guatemala’s postal service is moving forward into to recent past, yes, believe it or not only four months ago a bar …
Very often I see women on their way to the maize mill to turn nixtamalized maized into masa dough to make tortillas. …
This has to be one of the most frequent vistas in rural Guatemala. A woman or girl carrying a load of cooked …
I am truly convinced that Guatemalans can not do anything in a mild, neutral, gray manner. Guatemala is a country of extremes …
These colorful public transit buses are just another way Guatemalans recycle the junk from the U.S. and Canada. Of course, we live …
It doesn’t matter what day of the week you stop by the public washbasins, lavaderos, you will always find the ladies doing …
When is boulder not a boulder? When a boulder is for a climbing competition. Such was the case today when there was …
I never realized how much people die every day until I lived in a town where almost each death is announced by …
Suedehead by Morrissey on Grooveshark Let’s do it! The most creative caption will win this photo as a post card mailed through …
Exactly one week ago, a few meters from where this photo was taken, two young women were waiting for the bus when …
Every once in a while, the readers of AntiguaDailyPhoto participate in a creative exercise: to invent a plausible dialogue or conversation among …
Sábado de Gloria is a quieter day with only small processions carried by women known as Las Dolorosas (The Grief or Suffering …
I wonder what what is she thinking, I wonder what are the Guatemalan women thinking about on this International Women’s Day? In …
“Walijoq caewaj!” she yelled over and over in Quiche. Wake up, my love. Wake up, my love. This is the story of …
In the previous century it was common knowledge that one could identify the provenance of the Maya people in Guatemala, especially women, …
The Antigua Guatemala’s Half Marathon Las Rosas consists of a route of 21 kilometers through La Antigua Guatemala, Jocotenango, Ciudad Vieja and …
Most Guatemalan families are very tight with several generations often interacting with one another. It is not unusual to have at least …
I like to photograph old people. I like to photograph young people. I like to photograph people, regardless of their age, really. …
Okay, we have a new dialogue game. Those of you who have followed AntiguaDailyPhoto for a while know the rules. This simple …
As Semana Santa, the Holy Week before Easter, approaches, the historic colonial town of Antigua sees almost daily processions. These processions include …
The Cuaresma and Semana Santa season comes with its own set of garments; from the Romans to the Cucuruchos to the Dolorosas …
Often we hear that Guatemala is a country of contrasts. Even I try to show it often and what better way to …
The people from Guatemala City are known as capitalinos; residents of the Capital city. Women from Guatemala City would be capitalinas. La …
Last Monday 8 of March was celebrated the International Women’s Day through out the world. I believe women should be celebrated everyday, …
Women. They are the subject of these pictures. Why? The gruesome brutality hasn’t stopped. In fact, it has barely dipped. The Latin …
Pollo Campero is Guatemala’s most successful transnational company. With its tender, juicy and crunchy fried chicken, Campero has done what other Central …
One of the things I look forward to most when venturing out on a little jaunt outside of La Antigua is elote. …
As every first of the month, AntiguaDailyPhoto is joining City Daily Photo community in the orchestrated global effort to show you “contrast” …
After having lived for more than three months now in La Antigua Guatemala, I’ve only been a little around its surroundings. So …
“The three most important factors for the canopy tour are security, a family-oriented experience and promoting nature,” Antigua Canopy Tours Manager Pascu …
Today, as in colonial times, these public water tanks and washbasins serve as the places for doing the laundry and for water …
These recently renovated colonial-styled public water faucets can be found in and around many of the villages of La Antigua Guatemala. Like …
Normally, every photo at AntiguaDailyPhoto.Com comes with a caption, a narrative or even a story. Not always, the story is about the …
Some people like photos without people; aseptic and sterile images pues. I am the opposite. To me what makes the image interesting …
Last year, on March 15th, I first introduced you the Broom-head Romans soldiers; I believe it was Domingo de Ramos or Palm …
It doesn’t matter what kind of meeting it is, the ice cream men and their carts are always ready to sell you …
Sure, you say, the traje indígena is a far out outfit, but are there really symbols encoded in these garments? Once again, …
Your comments and feedback are very important and often show me the way for future posts or follow ups. Such was the …
I am the Walrus… I am Fofo… I am the Walrus. Honest. Fofo is short in Guatemalan Spanish for Rodolfo, which is …
Do you really want a long name, here’s one: “Parroquia San Pedro Apostol, San Juan Bautista of San Pedro Las Huertas, La …
The Guatemalan way of life is rapidly disappearing right in front of our eyes. Today’s entry is such a case, as the …
ACT 1: So there I was, consumed by own thoughts, after having had a few moments at the Benches at the Museo …
The poster above is about a concert promoting the Human Rights in Guatemala. The concert was held in La Antigua Guatemala’s Central …
That is right, Semana Santa in Guatemala is an equal opportunity celebration. Sure, cucuruchos take the majority of the clicks of cameras and most of the video recorded, but children, women and dogs have a place in the Holy Week celebrations. Women’s float or andas are a bit smaller and carry virgins or angels most of the time.
So much mumble jumble to present the underneath view of a Holy Week float in one of the villages of La Antigua Guatemala. Andas (floats) are not only the affair of cucuruchos, women also participate; and sometimes even chuchos (street dogs) get involved in the penitent act of carrying the heavy float! 😉
The last presentation in the three-day Festival de Jazz en Antigua was the Jordi Albert Projet doing a tribute to Chet Baker …
The other day we heard many voices on the other side of the fence; voices of children and women just talking and laughing. We approached the windows on the second floor to see what was all the commotion; then we saw men, women and children harvesting the coffee. At this moment, you can see the turning point of coffee from green to golden yellow and finally cherry red.
I believe that I do tend to be a voyeur or obsessive observer when it comes to capture the most natural street life scenes. My goal is to capture the intriguing split-second scene. I do not like posed photograph, especially posed street photos because once the subject is aware of the lens the natural feel is lost; the window that I open for you into the daily life of La Antigua Guatemala is broken.
It is incredible that one time women, nuns to be more specific, were not allowed contact with the outside world. The Arco de Santa Catarina, one of La Antigua Guatemala’s landmark was built to prevent the nuns to be seen by the outsiders, quite possibly men, while they move from side of the street to the other side where they eat or pray; don’t know for sure which one.
I am glad to know that now nuns are allowed to walk freely in search for the best Wi-Fi spot in town so they can update their blogs. 😉
Like these two ladies, many wonder if the new Social Democratic cabinet will be more inclusive and responsive to the needs of the masses and hope that just having one woman Ministra and one indigenous Ministro (Secretary of an executive department) in a country where 60% of the population are indigenous and at least, if not more, 50% of the population are women, will not be a handicap when the times comes to address the needs of the aforementioned people, which in turn represent the majority of the population.
There are many complications when you take an adopted child from Guatemala to a foreign land and to a foreign culture. One complication could be that he or she will be marked as strange because of her Mayan traits and the dark color of the skin.
Hispanic and Indigenous children might be walking on uneven streets if they are taken to mostly white neighborhoods where racism and discrimination could part of their daily bread.
Basically, the first ladies want to promote strategies in favor of the women of the region. If you ask me, this sounds to generic and broad to be taken seriously as a plan to better the situation of women in Central America. They could’ve taken a look at my entry of Guatemalan Women & Killer’s Paradise for two concrete campaigns for their agenda: The elimination of violence against women and solid plans to end the femicides and to bring the killers to justice. But then again, this would not be a suitable agenda to discuss for some fine first ladies while drinking the best coffee of world while staying at the only five stars hotel in La Antigua Guatemala, right?
I am sucker for shots with contrast. I like to show all the different contrasting vistas that come into my viewfinder in …
Soon everyone will be familiar with this logotype. Resistance is futile, all of you will be assimilated, we are the borg-campero. Juan José Gutiérrez and Dionisio Gutiérrez remind me of Pinky and The Brain because of their new weekly plans to take over the world. The first plan began over 35 years ago, 1971 to be precise, in tiny joint in Guatemala City. Their plan was very simple: let’s make a clone of Kentucky Fried Chicken and let’s sell it the world over. So far their plan has taken as far many U.S. cities, Madrid and Jakarta and in ten days to Shanghai. In China, Pinky and The Brain Gutiérrez plan to open up 500 new restaurants in the next five years; that is little over 8 restaurants per month. The Gutiérrez plan is to convince-convert the world over to their recipe of fried chicken which is tender, juicy and crunchy by way of plain logic: after all, how can 1.7 billion Chinese be wrong, right?
It was almost a year ago when I published a photo of the public laundry washbasins in Ciudad Vieja and Heidi asked …
La Antigua Guatemala is based on the time-tested Spanish grid of Streets and Avenues (see this map to get an idea). Streets …
The original post Opposite Ends of Life, in La Antigua Guatemala DP, was published on May 23rd, 2006 and it was about a little girl and an old lady helping each other cross the street. It is an interesting shot, if I may say so, you should see if you haven’t done so already.
Today’s entry is about different women and their opposite position in the spectrum of life.
La Dolorosa or The Sorrowful Mother is the biblical figure of sorrowful mother Mary which follows Jesus in his way to his crucifixion. This act is represented by a smaller anda (long carved wooden flatbed image-carrying float [*]) —carrying the effigy of sorrowful Mother Mary and other female biblical representations— which is hauled exclusively by women who mostly dress in black or white as this is the appropriate dress code for a funeral. Jesus’ funeral.
I have posted many photos of bicycles in and around Antigua Guatemala and I even said that bicycles are among the most-widely …
This is a close-up view of a Huipil, sort of a blouse worn by the indigenous Maya women and sometimes even the …
It was in 1998 that I got to see Men with Guns, thanks to a pair of tickets I received from KPFK, …
Yesterday I mentioned that the traditional baked-clay comales are disappearing in Guatemala in favor of the metal comal; heated through gas. All …
El Parque Central (Central Park click the link to see all the previous photos related to the park) is one of the …
You may remember this red wall from the Pick your color #1 entry. These are some of adjectives our visitors use for …
Jamtigua is a music festival, now in its second year. Jamtigua is the merging of the words Jam and Antigua and the …
Selling folk-art is only one of the activities that these two Indigenous girls do. —Don’t move little sister or I might hurt …
Guatemalan textiles are among the most look-after items in the folk-art markets. You have to be careful though, they come in two …
This outdoor folk-art market sets on the street outside the El Carmen Ruins on the weekends only, located about two blocks from …
Since the pictures for the last two days had way too many colors, I decided to make today’s choice simple. If you …
… Equal opportunity. Related entries: Selling folk-art on the park Where are the Maya women going to? Let’s go mija, we’re are …
Many indigenous women earn their living by selling folk-art on the parks. This photo was taken at Iglesia de la Merced in …
On May 13th I posted a photo a public laundry washbasin in Ciudad Vieja and Heidi asked how do people wash their …