Nebaj, May 23-2010, Catholic church Sunday service. Nebaj is an indigenous town(a municipality in the of El Quiché) in Guatemala. This weekend we went to Nebaj to visit a relative of the family, I live with in Huehuetenango. I stayed at a small hotel in Nebaj. On Sunday morning I had some free time, which I used to visit Catholic church. The ceremony was a composition of Catholic church and Mayan traditions. It was visually very strong.
When I entered the church early in the morning, it was almost full. I took a seat at a rear row. Uncomfortable with the consciousness of being a stranger(maybe having a camera on me, I sat there and just watched the service for a while.
I was really nervous for several reasons, when I started to walk towards the front rows. Eventually I started to take some photos of the church attendees. I could barely eye-contact with the girl in the first photograph. Her name is Cristina. She was there with her mother. I could see her smile among the crowd one last time, while she was leaving the church.
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