Sucilá

  • Dates
    2019 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Topics Daily Life, Documentary, Street Photography
  • Location Sucilá, Mexico

Ongoing project that portrays how foreign traditions of colonialism and westernization landed in Mayan lands of the Yucatan peninsula located in Mexico.

Sucilá (pronounced Sukilá) is a town on the Mayan peninsula and is located 1,466 km km from the state of Mexico, the majority of its inhabitants are Mayan-speaking and also devote themselves to the legacies of Catholicism and its festivities through religious images which they walk around the people with great faith. This report is part of the documentation Religious syncretism in Mayan lands, the legacy of the invasion

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