Posts Tagged ‘cuzco’

mamá & niño

December 29, 2011

I ran into this young mother and her baby in one of the higher neighborhoods of Cuzco.  I was actually up there with my volunteer boss, who was showing me the new hidden house we have for our clients who have had to leave their spouses because of domestic violence issues.  Ana Maria stopped this woman and asked me to take some photos of her, promising that when we actually move into our new house, we will print them and give them to her.  I only had a sec to shoot – but I really like the way they came out.

 

Enjoy!

merry merry

December 13, 2011

In 2009, when I first started the Twelve Posts of Christmas series, I didn’t know that two years later, the same series would be bringing me Christmas comforts while living far away from home.  Here in Cuzco, lights are starting to be put up and just this week I have seen several Santa Clauses walking around town.  But, I have yet to hear a Christmas carol, be invited to a Christmas party, see a tacky Christmas sweater, or smell a real Christmas tree (all the trees here are artificial … I asked a client if she had put up her tree yet and she said, “No, it’s in Arequipa.”)

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For this reason, I am excited for the series of posts that will be coming up in the next twelve days – friends describing their favorite sights, sounds, smells and tastes of Christmas.  I hope that it can be something that you enjoy too!

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For tonight, I wanted to bring you some Christmas Cheer from the sweet orphans at the Josephine House located on the outskirts of Cuzco.  We got together in late October to get a Christmas Card photo ready for them to send to their supporters.  The majority of these sweet children already have families wanting to adopt them.  They are precious and send you warm Christmas wishes!




a first communion

December 4, 2011

Most readers know that Kenzo and I are living in Peru for 9 months.  We arrived in August and are coming home in May.  We have traveled a couple of times already for weddings (once to the Bahamas and a second time to West Virginia).  I will be in Tampa for a wedding and a handful of shoots in February and then officially back in May.  Anyway, I say all of that to introduce this post.  We are living with a family in Peru and recently, Richie, the 10 year-old son, had his first communion and asked Kenzo and me to be his godparents.

You can see more photos from communion or our life in Peru in general at www.peru-zo.com.

The view from Richie’s school is pretty ridiculous.

And while this photo of Pierro (cousin of the family) has nothing to do with the communion besides the fact that I took it there – he is just precious and I wanted to share.

Eliana

November 27, 2011

Meet my friend, Eliana.  I met her my first day working in the Policlinico Parroquial Belen here in Cusco back in August.  When you’re a foreigner, living and working in another country, in a field that you really have not worked in before – it can be a little intimidating.  Especially when you’re trying to do psychotherapy with hurting families and couples in your second language.  However, when your coworker is like Eliana, the transition can become pretty easy.  Eliana is a psychologist with a master’s in Gestalt Therapy.  In the short three months that I worked with her – I learned a lot from her way of interacting with patients.  When we became facebook friends, I asked her where all of her photos were (she did not have one) and she responded that she “never likes herself in photos”.  So, I asked her for the opportunity to photograph her in hopes that maybe she could change that answer.  Eliana – I hope that you love your beautiful self in these photos!

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Te presento a mi amiga, Eliana.  Le conocí mi primer día trabajando en el Policlínico Parroquial Belen, acá en Cusco en Augusto.  Cuando eres un extranjera, viviendo y trabajando en otro país, en un trabajo en que no has trabajado anteriormente – puede ser bastante intimidante.  Específicamente, cuando estás intentando hacer psicoterapia con familias y parejas heridas en tu secundo idioma.  Pero, cuando tu compañera de trabajo es como Eliana es, hace que la transición puede ser bastante fácil.  Eliana es psicólogo con una maestría en terapia gestalt.  En las tres meses que he trabajado con ella, aprendí mucho de su manera de relacionarse con sus pacientes.  Cuando nos conectamos en facebook, le pregunté “donde están tus fotos” porque no tenía ni una y me respondió “nunca me gusta como me salgo en fotos.”  Entonces, le pedí la oportunidad de tomarle fotos esperando que tal vez su respuesta pueda ser distinta.  Eliana – espero que te ames a tu hermosa persona en estas fotos!

We took advantage of Eliana’s aunt’s “home in the country” – which was 15 minutes down the road.  It was simply beautiful!

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Nos aprovechamos de “la casa del campo” de la tia de Eliana – que esta a las 15 minutos de Cusco.  Es una belleza!

During her master’s program Eliana and her classmates made masks that represented the person that they display to others on the outside.  The masks that they wear daily.  They were then challenged to leave those masks behind as they advanced into their career as psychologists.  In the next series of photos we represent:

 

1- Eliana hiding behind her mask

2- Eliana confronting her mask

3- Eliana choosing to leave her mask behind

 

I love the meaning of these next photos for her!

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Durante su maestría, Eliana y sus compañeros hicieron mascaras que representaban la persona que se mostraban delante de otros: las mascaras que llevaban cada día.  Después fueron desafiados a abandonar sus mascarás mientras que seguirán adelantes en sus careras como psicólogos.  La próxima seria de fotos representa:

 

1- Eliana ocultándose detrás de su mascará

2- Eliana confrontando a su mascará

3- Eliana elijando de abandonar a su mascará

 

Me encanta la significancia de estas fotos por ella!


Gracias Eliana!!  Eres bella.

Thank you Eliana – you are beautiful!

 

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