Author Description

Spanish Edition available: Nuestra Cultura es Nuestra Resistencia: Represión, Refugio y Recuperación en Guatemala "Between 1993 and 2003 Jonathan Moller photographed communities uprooted by war in Guatemala. The result is Our Culture Is Our Resistance, a collection of portraits taken during that decade, revealing stories of life and death, of hope and despair, and of struggles for survival, respect, and truth. The beauty and strength of Moller's photographs and the accompanying texts not only document and preserve the faces and events associated with this land and its history, but also display for the viewer the humanity and dignity of these largely Mayan indigenous peoples." Featuring 147 tritone portraits, Our Culture Is Our Resistance includes an introduction by Guatemalan Nobel Peace Laureate, Rigoberta Menchú Tum; essays by Francisco Goldman, Susanne Jonas, and Ricardo Falla; prose and poetry by Eduardo Galeano, Julia Esquivel, Francisco Morales Santos, Humberto Ak'abal, and Heather Dean. The book also includes testimonies and reflections by Guatemalan community members and survivors, as well as statements by photographer Sebastião Salgado, Eduardo Galeano a noted Guatemalan anthropologist, Jesuit priest and author, and William F. Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA.