Dotted with colors.
On the fringes of a densely crowded marketplace in the Guatemalan highlands, a reverent silence looms over the ivory gate of the General Cemetery. Beyond its deceptively sterile exterior, hundreds of vibrant tombstones pepper the hillside.
To outsiders, the passionate display of color may seem incongruent with loss of life — but according to indigenous Maya tradition, honoring the dead encourages the living to make peace with the inevitability of death.
Stocks used:
11 different photo
Dotted with colors.
On the fringes of a densely crowded marketplace in the Guatemalan highlands, a reverent silence looms over the ivory gate of the General Cemetery. Beyond its deceptively sterile exterior, hundreds of vibrant tombstones pepper the hillside.
To outsiders, the passionate display of color may seem incongruent with loss of life — but according to indigenous Maya tradition, honoring the dead encourages the living to make peace with the inevitability of death.
Stocks used:
11 different photo