Posts from the ‘guatemala’ Category
SAN PEDRO – the final files
All good things come to an end. Otherwise they are not good things, but just plain normality. The final photo essay (for now) from San Pedro de la Laguna, Solola’, Guatemala.
Pedro pan.
Bolt-down speed bumps.
Indoor cycling track.
Peace, amigo!
Checker out!
1.5 shoeshines per shoe.
Hi-rise, San Pedro style.
Why is she not answering my texts?
Oh, stop that! Can’t you see it’s just a gringo with a camera…?
As the Germans say, everything has an end. Except for the sausage, which has two…
Hope you enjoyed.
Alessandro Ciapanna
SAN PEDRO – the chiaroscuro files
Monochrome street photography from San Pedro de la Laguna, Solola’, Guatemala.
Watching the rain from a cheap cantina.
Wide load.
Just takin’ my shadow for a walk…
Off-hours market.
Off-hours classroom.
Restaurants are already open…
…but churches are closed…
…so we’ll do our evening prayers in a restaurant!
All photos taken in 2013. Hope you enjoyed!
LAKESCAPES – Atitlan, Guatemala
Views you get when looking out over Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.
Canoes and vol… canoes. Santiago Atitlan.
She was cleaning fishes. “Are they from the lake?”, i asked. “No, from the market!”, she confessed.
All the water you can use right at your doorstep.
Much more water than there used to be. As the recently-flooded trees slowly die, they are chopped up for use as firewood. San Marcos.
Sittin’ on the dock on the lake.
Watching the sun go down.
You staying? I’m going. (I)
You staying? I’m going. (II)
The level of Lake Atitlan has risen over the past few years due to heavier-than-usual rainy seasons to levels unseen for generations. This has caused loss of agricultural land, homes and businesses. As well as sinking all the non-floating docks. But – thankfully – life seems to keep going on, more or less as usual.
Alessandro Ciapanna
SANTIAGO ATITLAN – plays and prays
Monochrome photo essay from the streets of Santiago Atitlan, Solola’, Guatemala.
Stonefighting kid.
Line fishing off the pier.
After the stonefight, fishing together.
Those are BOY things. We’re outta here!
Ok, we’ll have all the sinners in the front, and the saints in the back…
Who they really trust.
Have faith in me for this year. No? Well, how about for a few months…?
What? You hang a picture of Jesus over my face? That’s it: i quit as pope!
All pictures taken before the Pope quit, but only just.
Pope you all enjoyed. Er – hope.
Alessandro Ciapanna
ATITLAN – Guatemala’s great lake
A monochrome photo essay on one of the world’s most beautiful lakes: Atitlan, in Guatemala.
Jumping off the platform, San Marcos, Atitlan, Guatemala.
Laundry and bath, San Pedro de la Laguna, Atitlan, Guatemala.
Munching bone by lake Atitlan, San Pedro de la Laguna, Guatemala.
Volcano, San Marcos, Atitlan, Guatemala.
Reeds, San Marcos, Atitlan, Guatemala.
Spray on boat window, Atitlan, Guatemala.
Santiago dock, San Pedro de la Laguna, Atitlan, Guatemala.
Waiting for the ferry to Santiago Atitlan, San Pedro de la Laguna, Guatemala.
Kids horsing around at the helm of a water taxi, San Marcos, lake Atitlan, Guatemala.
All pictures taken in January 2012.
Thank you for stopping by.
Alessandro Ciapanna
