Visions of the Maya Mesoamerica

Through the eyes of an archaeologist and an architect, the photographer captures the culture of the past, present andthe future of the peoples known as the Maya. What is shown here are just a few examples of an indigenous culture thousands of years old with structural knowledge of temples, calendars, astronomy, and language all still deeply hidden within the highlands and lowlands of Guatemala, Belize, the Yucatan, Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico. A diversity of ecology survives along with almost 6 million Maya that are survivors in the world today. What has kept them together through all of the conquests is their connection with the land, a devotion to their community and an all-pervading belief system. The conquest continues today with the mass destruction of the rainforest habitat, an attempt to disconnect the Maya from their land. It is through this destruction that there will be a loss of a culture and an understanding of a true indigenous America.