The Grape Pickers, Sonora, Mexico by Fran Antmann

Private Project

The Grape Pickers, Sonora, Mexico

Copyright Fran Antmann 2025

Updated May 2019

Location San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala

Topics Documentary, Photography, Photojournalism

In 2006, I arrived in Guatemala to continue my photography of indigenous people and I have continued to work there. It was 25 years after La Violencia in which over 200,000 Maya people were killed, and 400 of their villages, burnt off the map. The Guatemalan army attacked their cultural practices and traditions, destroying sacred lands and desecrated Maya rituals. For the survivors, it is not an event that has passed, but one that echoes in the lakes where they fish and wash their clothes, in the surrounding volcanic hills, in the tall standing corn along the water’s edge, like a phantom limb that still throbs. They struggle to move forward through a political landscape in which conflict has been halted but not resolved, where the perpetrators still hold power despite legal efforts to bring them to justice.

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