2011-10. Joint Exhibit. Water, Rivers and Peoples. Guatemala.

The Foundation for the New Culture of Water has organized a sizeable photo exhibit named Water, Rivers and Peoples that, according to its website, “offers a human profile of the conflicts and struggles for water. Through the photographs and testimonies, the people affected cease to be a statistic and directly communicate their anguish, reasons and hopes.”

Besides contributing to the core exhibit with images from the Guatemalan Chixoy Dam case involving the massacres of Maya Achi communities in Rabinal, MiMundo.org’s role expanded as the exhibit arrived in Guatemala. During this portion of the exhibit’s tour, MiMundo.org was commissioned to photograph several Guatemalan cases involving conflicts and struggles for water, including issues involving metal mining, troubled Lake Atitlan, and Mayan spirituality in relation to Water, among others.

 

The Exhibit was displayed from March to October 2011 in several cities, including:

Palacio de Cultura, Guatemala City.

 

Palacio de los Capitanes y Parque Central, Antigua.

 

Centro Cultural de la Academia de Lenguas Mayas, Santa Cruz del Quiché.

 

Centro Cultural Casa No’j, Quetzaltenango.