Semana Santa
Semana Santa – which officially starts on Palm Sunday, the last Sunday before Easter, and consists of religious processions with large “andas,” wooden floats, bearing statues of Jesus carrying the cross or Mary or...
Author: ChichiMax
El Día de Independencia
Independence Day in Guatemala – September 15 – is all about schools. Students across Guatemala bang on drums early mornings before classes beginning in May, and practice tumbling moves and prepare costumes. Then, after...
Day of the Dead
The following are pages lifted from a photobook I created in 2012. This set commemorates Day of the Dead shots. I actually have much better pictures of the graveyard and celebration now … …...
La Feria Titular – Chichi’s grandest celebration
The following photos and text are images of a photobook I created in 2012 Chichicastenango: Introduction to the Photo Collage Book Semana Santa – Week leading up to Easter El Día de Independencia ...
Back to The Past (March 2017) with las dos Elizabeths
Recently I received some photos of the UTMB PA School March Rotation from Elizabeth Knipp, one of the students who participated in that expeience. I immediately wanted to post them, because there’s several that are...
Last Day in La Esperanza (“Hope”) Quetzaltenango
The last day of the UTMB PA rotation in La Esperanza, Quetzaltenango, was yesterday. Dr. Patricia Crane, the preceptor for the rotation, sent along the photo below of the doctoras in front of the...
Recent Consultants for Community Development Facebook Posts
There are a few new photos (including the one below) on the Consultants for Community Development FB page that I have not gotten around to putting on this blog yet. As mentioned in previous...
UTMB March Rotation Day 2 (7 March 2016)
PA students Elizabeth Knipp and Beth Thompson climbed into an ambulance yesterday morning for the commute to work in the pueblo of La Esperanza. I have driven by this community many times, usually on...
Moving into March with another UTMB Clinical Rotation in Guatemala
It’s 15 degrees and windy out as I sit here in my home office in upstate New York working on a presentation about using “cultural competence” in mental health assessments. It’s a subject that...
Kids of Xepocol
In retrospect, one of the ironies of my life is that although as a kid or young adult I never had any desire to work with children, I have spent most of my adult life working with...
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