Kerry Payne Stailey Left Behind ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Kerry Payne won a coveted Lucie Award this week for this essay Left Behind on suicide, and also for her The Children I Never Had. A remarkable two story validation for work that came from her own personal pain in both cases. Kerry is …
Trying to choose which photo to start with I realize none are good enough. So I might as well start at the beginning of my day with Tessa, our beloved dog, on our doorstep. This is Marina @eauditalie posting on @burndiary.
Chiapas, Mexico. The indigenous Maya culture runs deep in the highlands of Guatemala and into Chiapas. While tourists run all over San Cristobal de las Casas, some of the smaller villages harder to reach see few outsiders. Political turmoil has plagued Chiapas for years and the indigenous communities see themselves as apart from the Mexican …
Happy Birthday Mom ❤ Maryanna Harvey 1919-2013. The single greatest influence on my life. Non judgmental. Inspiration to all she met. Our family glue. Her last words, ” we never have to say goodbye”. I love you forever Mom.
Oaxaca, Mexico. Retro. I’ve spent many weeks in Oaxaca state and city and will spend more time shooting there very soon. My piece in NatGeo “Song of Oaxaca” will also be the book title. For years I’ve been thinking of this book. Other books jumped in front. Cuba, HipHop, Rio, Haenyeo, Tell It Like It …
Guatemala highlands. Formidable mountain ranges prevented the Spanish from too much incursion into the Maya highlands in their conquest of the Americas. Personally I’ve never witnessed a culture more resistant to extinction than the Maya. They’ve hung on to their various languages, their agrarian roots, and distinct dress, which varies from one town to another. …
Broertjes Geert 1 Year I have a strong desire to photograph everything that’s happening around me. I do it for myself as a diary but also to translate my reality into images. And finally to create a new reality with those images, a fictional story with events that really happened. The mood shown in my …
One thing I’ve been forced to learn how to do is to focus,compose, and shoot while under the heavy influence of alcohol. Here in Guanajuato, Mexico it’s like 6am and I’ve just taken my last of heaven knows how many shots of tequila and I’m literally flat on my back by the campfire. It’s just …
Retro. My first major story outside the U.S. for NatGeo was a 56 page essay on the Maya culture in both Guatamala and Mexico. This story changed me forever and I have remained attached to all the Spanish cultures ever since. This from Solola overlooking Lake Atitlan in the Guatamala highlands. #guatamala #maya #lakeatitlan
