Beautiful and haunting, the images in this photographic chronicle represent 10 years among the Lacandon Mayans in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. What results is an intimate portrait that illuminates very essence of the Hach Winik, or “Real People,” a tribe struggling to preserve their culture as the modern world encroaches. Also included is the short story “Pastor Dowe at Tacaté,” by Paul Bowles, which describes the experiences of an American missionary in a small Lacandon town.
Miquel Dewever-Planais a photojournalist and the author of
Underground Truth: The Silent Genocide, for which he was awarded the Journalism and Human Rights Prize at the 2008 International Festival of Photojournalism.
A photographic essay journaling the culture of the Hach Winik, a tribe of Lacandon Mayas living in southern Mexico, especially in the context of the encroachment of the modern world on their way of life. Includes a short story by legendary American author Paul Bowles.
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