As I mentioned yesterday, there will be Lent and Holy Week celebrations in Antigua Guatemala for a long while. These religious traditions are being passed on to the very young. Here we see young cucuruchos, bearers, as they carried the small float from the Cathedral. I recorded a small video clip with the iPhone to … Read more
The second Sunday of Lent is the turn for the village of Santa Inés del Monte Pulciano. It is at this processional float when many cucuruchos from Guatemala City make their first appearance. For this procession, Nelo Mijangos took 752 photos and “only” walked 19.4 kilometers or 12 miles. You can see his route on … Read more
Beginning with the first Sunday after Ash Wednesday, there are processions each Sunday of Lent and the first procession comes out the village of Santa Catarina Bobadilla. Make sure you click on the images to look at a larger version to really appreciate all the details. Each day this week, Nelo will share his most … Read more
The traditions of Guatemala are kept alive by the faith and fervor of the people and that’s exactly what Nelo wanted to show with this slide show. People fully committed to their passion, believes and faith. People participating in all aspects of the Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala, the largest manifestation of its kind in … Read more
As Nelo have shown to us this week, many photographers are looking for their unique angle on the Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala. However, I believe and I am 100% certain that only through Nelo’s lens we get to see Semana Santa in Antigua Guatemala from unique and original vantage points. If you want to … Read more
As shown at the beginning of the series Holy Week Photographers in Antigua Guatemala, being a cucurucho (carrier) and taking photos of the most important event in Guatemala is combining the two passions many us share in Antigua Guatemala. If you want to see hundreds of Holy Week photos and read about all the aspects … Read more
Visitors are also among the photography crows that follow the processions during the Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala. You can find all kinds of photographers and videographers documenting the fervor and passion of Semana Santa in Guatemala. According to Elizabeth Bell in recent article in Revue Magazine, “Antigua’s celebrations used to be considered second only … Read more
Even though mister Leonel Mijangos, simply Nelo for those us lucky to him, is doing an fantastic job with series Holy Week photographers, after looking at the cucurucho with the camera, I believe we should ask Nelo to bring us that perspective next year. I mean for to carry the heavy float and take pictures … Read more
As shown the other day, many cucuruchos are also photographers, a trend which seems to increase as more people use mobile phone cameras and point and shoots. But, the professional photographers will always be there with all their gear, ready to capture a fleeting gesture or the laughs of kids watching from window sill. All … Read more
We continue the series Antigua Guatemala Holy Week Photographers with portraits of three photographers, two of them friends and partners in Antigua Guatemala photo club. In the picture above, you can see how several photographers manage to take photos of each other without them realizing it. The Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala has to be … Read more
Once again, as in previous years, my dear friend and colleague Leonel [Nelo] Mijangos takes the steering wheel of AntiguaDailyPhoto during Semana Santa (Holy Week) to share with us his amazing and unique imagery of the most special celebration in Antigua Guatemala. This year Nelo has decided that the main running and connecting theme will … Read more
Okay, the 365-day wait is over. The world-famous Holy Week in La Antigua Guatemala is here. Get your cameras ready and join the hundreds if not thousands of photographers and cucuruchos populating the 10-block colonial town of Antigua Guatemala. If under normal circumstances there are plenty of photographers capturing every conceivable vista from La Antigua … Read more
Slowly, but surely the love, devotion and passion for the world famous Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala are being passed on to the new generations. I am glad to know that there will be Semana Santa in La Antigua Guatemala for another 500 years. I believe that Semana Santa is so much more than a … Read more
At 3:30 in the morning and by the light of the full moon as the rooster crowed a couple times, my husband and I threw on our sweaters and jeans, stumbled out into the quiet streets of El Calvario and into our car. We knew we were taking a chance by driving into La Antigua … Read more
The making of sawdust carpets, alfombras de aserrín, with its vivid colors and eye-catching patterns are among the most prominent elements of the Holy Week celebrations. The making of carpets from sawdust, pine-needles, flowers, vegetables is a community-forming tradition. People get together by block or near-by neighbors to create the carpets on which the processions … Read more