Turning over soil for planting, Ccenta, Pampachiri, Peru.
One of the things I’m going to do with this newly updated website is look over old images taken on my first two trips to Peru. The scope of agricultural land that has been abandoned is almost impossible to comprehend—it’s visible across the slope, lines almost appearing to shift like an optical illusion when you look at it straight on. When farmers farm here they have brutal hikes up and down the steep incline. The hikes alone knocked me out when I was there, but the people who hike them every day do so nimbly although they are burdened with plows and babies and lunch. In this photograph the woman who stands looking back is the owner of the chakra, or plot, and she had recently moved back for part of the year to work the land almost as a kind of retirement hobby with her husband. This kind of influx of new/old faces is a boon to the local economy, which is suffering badly since the terrorism years of the 80s and 90s.
Re-examining old work
Turning over soil for planting, Ccenta, Pampachiri, Peru.
One of the things I’m going to do with this newly updated website is look over old images taken on my first two trips to Peru. The scope of agricultural land that has been abandoned is almost impossible to comprehend—it’s visible across the slope, lines almost appearing to shift like an optical illusion when you look at it straight on. When farmers farm here they have brutal hikes up and down the steep incline. The hikes alone knocked me out when I was there, but the people who hike them every day do so nimbly although they are burdened with plows and babies and lunch. In this photograph the woman who stands looking back is the owner of the chakra, or plot, and she had recently moved back for part of the year to work the land almost as a kind of retirement hobby with her husband. This kind of influx of new/old faces is a boon to the local economy, which is suffering badly since the terrorism years of the 80s and 90s.