Photography Workshop ‘Images and Identity’ When Tulum’s local NGO Movida Maya invited me to lead the ‘Images and Identity’ photography workshop with Mayan teenagers in Mexico’s indigenous fringe community Chumpón, Quintana Roo, I was humbled because the reality of these kids’ daily life challenges made my own current problems fade in comparison. Yet as soon as […]
May 15, 2018 | Categories: People, Projects Blog | Tags: Art and Culture Festival Mexico, Art With Me, Community Work, Humo Tulum, Indigenous Communities Mexico, Indigenous People Photography, Mayan World, Mexico Photographer, Movida Maya NGO, Nonprofit, Nonprofit Organization Mexico, Pepe Soho, Photography Exhibition, Photography Exhibition Tulum, Tulum Photographer, Youth Empowerment, Youth Programs Mexico, Yucatan Mayan Community | Comments Off on Movida Maya: Teaching Photography Workshop
After filming for weeks in the deep Amazonian jungles of Manu National Park in Peru, we gave ourselves the gift of not much rest and more travel. Thus we embarked on this fabulous adventure through the exotic lands surrounding Lake Titicaca to Bolivia’s capital La Paz and ending in the mesmerizing giant desert of salt […]
Oct 01, 2016 | Categories: Journeys, Projects Blog | Tags: Adventure Photography, Anna Fishkin, Anna Fishkin Photography, Anna Kin, Anna Kin Photography, Bolivia Landscape Photography, Bolivia Photography, Eco-tourism, Everystring Photography, Floating Islands Titikaka, Indigenous People Photography, La Paz Bolivia Photography, Lake Titicaca Photography, Landscape Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Salar de Uyuni Photography, Travel Photography, Uros Floating Islands, Uros Photography, Uyuni Desert Photography, Uyuni Landscape Photography, Uyuni Salt Flats Bolivia, Uyuni Salt Flats Photography | Leave A Comment »
Dear friends of my work, I’m pleased to present the preview demo of my new documentary film project in Peru. This story about indigenous Machiguenga people of Manú National Park has preoccupied my mind and heart during all of past year and I hope you watch, share and support our efforts to give these communities […]
Sep 27, 2016 | Categories: Journeys, Projects Blog | Tags: Adventure Photography, Amazon, Amazon Photography, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Tribes, Ancient Amazonian Tribes, Anna Fishkin, Documentary Film, Ethnobotany, Inca Civilization, Indigenous People, Indigenous People Photography, Indigenous Tribes, Landscape Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Machiguenga Tribe, Manu National Park, Medicinal Plants, Nature Photography, Pacha Kuti, Permaculture, Peru Photography, Peruvian Amazon, Return of the Machiguenga, Rio Madre De Dios, Travel Photography | Leave A Comment »
In March-April, 2015, we traveled to Manú National Park biosphere reserve in Peru to begin filming a documentary about isolated indigenous communities of Machiguenga (Matsiguenga) people living in the Amazon rainforest along Manú and Madre de Dios rivers. Guided by two local shamans, we visited several native communities and spoke to their elders about ongoing […]
Apr 27, 2015 | Categories: Journeys, Projects Blog | Tags: Adventure Photography, Amazon Photography, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon Tribes, Ancient Amazonian Tribes, Anna Fishkin, Cusco Photography, Inca Civilization, Indigenous People Photography, Indigenous Tribes, Landscape Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Machiguenga Tribe, Manu National Park, Nature Photography, Peru Photography, Rio Madre De Dios, Travel Photography | Leave A Comment »