“Our photographs provide knowledge about our life because we proudly maintain the customs of our ancestors, our roots, and love of our people.”
Emiliano Guzmán Meza
CPP artist
Juana López López
CPP artist
Exhibitions
Presently CPP has a small traveling exhibition, Nuestra comida / Our Food, available for rental. This exhibition highlights the important relationship between food and culture in Maya communities. It consists of 25 framed color photographs and 10 text panels. It is ideal for schools, museums, and libraries.
Rent the current exhibition here. See the prospectus and contract.
CPP photographers have exhibited in solo and group shows in museums, galleries, alternative spaces and indigenous communities throughout Mexico and internationally in the United States, Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Iceland. It has been gratifying to see how our activities on the international art scene have helped bring worldwide attention to indigenous realities and talents.
These exhibitions have also encouraged CPP photographers to grow creatively, and on some occasions enabled them to interact with other artists from different cultural backgrounds and contexts. CPP will continue to promote such cultural exchange through a partnership with the Flint Institute of the Arts; a residency program for Maya photographers in the United States will begin in 2011.
The Chiapas Photography Project is in the process of preparing a major exhibition titled A Celebration of Everyday Life, Work by Maya Photographers from Chiapas, Mexico. It gathers some of the best work produced by CPP photographers throughout the twenty year history of the Project. The exhibition will include interpretive texts and a selection of documentary photographs of CPP activities.
Other Galleries:
Corn/Maiz/Ixim | New Photos, New Photographers | from the book My Little Sister Cristina