Photograph: Puente de Piedra, Histórico. Ciudad de Quetzaltenango
Category: Photography
Photograph: Lake Atitlán in green and blue
The Many Faces of Tikal
All photos by Byron Ortiz Tikal (or Tik’al according to the modern Mayan orthography) is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centres of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. Situated in the department of El Petén, the site is part of Guatemala’s Tikal […]
Read moreREVUE’s June Photo Contest: Father
If you would like to participate in our MONTHLY PHOTO CONTEST with the theme FATHER for JUNE, 2012 please send ONE HI-RES photo with caption/location and your name and website for the credit line to: photos@revuemag.com. Submissions entered by May 10 will be eligible for June’s photo contest. Si desea participar en nuestro CONCURSO FOTOGRÁFICO con el tema PADRE, edición […]
Read moreRevue Photo Contest for May: Mother
Vote for your favorite photo at: Revue Photo Contest for May: Mother on Facebook You are invited to participate in our MONTHLY PHOTO CONTEST with the theme MOTHER for MAY, 2012 please send ONE HI-RES photo with caption/location and your name and website for the credit line to: photos@revuemag.com. Submissions entered by April 10 will be eligible for May’s photo contest. […]
Read moreREVUE’s May Photo Contest: Mother
If you would like to participate in our MONTHLY PHOTO CONTEST with the theme MOTHER for MAY, 2012 please send ONE HI-RES photo with caption/location and your name and website for the credit line to: photos@revuemag.com. Submissions entered by April 10 will be eligible for May’s photo contest. Si desea participar en nuestro CONCURSO FOTOGRÁFICO con el tema MADRE, edición […]
Read moreREVUE’s April Photo Contest: Holy Week
If you would like to participate in our MONTHLY PHOTO CONTEST with the theme HOLY WEEK for APRIL, 2012 please send ONE HI-RES photo with caption/location and your name and website for the credit line to: photos@revuemag.com. Submissions entered by March 10 will be eligible for April’s photo contest. Si desea participar en nuestro CONCURSO FOTOGRÁFICO con el tema SEMANA […]
Read moreAstrophotography in Guatemala
We are happy to share with you some marvelous samples of astrophotography from Guatemala captured by the patient lens of Ivan Castro Peña. Just last week we published a time lapse video entitled Una noche en tu gracia made by mister Castro during six different nights in the locations of Alotenango, Amatitlán, Los Pocitos Pacaya, Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Mazatenango and […]
Read more9th Annual Photo Issue of Revue Magazine
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. —Eudora Welty
Read moreDía de la Virgen de Guadalupe in Antigua Guatemala
Throughout the country children dress in typical clothing paying homage to the Virgen de Guadalupe. One such procession begins at La Merced Church at 3pm. Typical food for sale outside the church, La Antigua. Photos by Rudy Girón
Read more8th Annual Photo Issue of Revue Magazine
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. —Ernst Haas
Read moreSeason For Marvel
One of nature’s marvels unfolds nightly this time of year on Guatemala’s Pacific coast—a beautiful yet awkward ballet of emerging life that, within minutes of existence, is challenged for survival against natural predators.
Read moreCIRMA Expands Access
Light begins to shine on buried treasure Not far from La Antigua’s Central Park lies a newly refurbished Guatemalan version of Ali Baba’s cave. Walk two blocks east on 5a calle, past the original University of San Carlos and what’s now a museum. Then another half block to the ornate wooden doors and the dark red-brick exterior with a small […]
Read moreHoly Week in Guatemala City
by Eny Roland Hernández
Read morePHOTO OP: Holy Week in El Salvador
Holy Week Vistas
Holy Week Vistas by Nelo Mijangos
Read moreCuaresma / Lent Photos, Guatemala
Cuaresma/Lent Vistas
Read moreLos Todos Santeros
“The indigenous seem to understand instinctively what I want from them; we communicate with looks and gestures. The most important thing is empathy and mutual trust. This is a formula that has never failed me.”
—Los Todos Santeros, Hans Namuth,
7th Annual Photo Issue of Revue Magazine
To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. —Henri Cartier-Bresson
Read moreThe Antigua Photography Club
The local community of photographers will officially introduce itself to La Antigua this month with its first collective exhibit. The sentiment is a common one and spills from the lips of most residents and visitors alike: walking the streets of the quintessentially colonial town of La Antigua is like walking through a living painting, an everlasting photograph. Thus, it is […]
Read morePostcards from the Park
text/photos by Melba Milak The city of La Antigua Guatemala is laid out in a simple grid: seven avenues running north and south and 10 streets going east and west. In the center of town is a park (Plaza Mayor), the heart and soul of the whole area. The atmosphere in the park is carefree and carnival-like. When visiting Antigua, […]
Read moreEl Salvador Beach Scenes
photos by Lena Johannessen
Read moreThor Janson
Wildlife conservationist, photographer, author, adventurer, environmentalist and educator The volcano Pacaya in Guatemala began erupting more dramatically than usual one day several years ago, and nature photographer Thor Janson rushed to the slopes to take pictures for his files. “By 4 o’clock Pacaya was spewing molten lava several hundred meters into the air every 30 to 45 seconds,” Thor recalls. […]
Read more6th Annual Photo Issue of Revue Magazine
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. —Ansel Adams
Read moreISTMO
With stunning aerials by internationally acclaimed photographer Ange Bourda, a new book featuring unique views of Central American sights, including volcanoes, beaches and rainforests, will debut in Guatemala in January 2009. Titled ISTMO (Isthmus), the colorful hardcover book contains 160 remarkable photos by Bourda, a widely published French photographer who considers Guatemala his adoptive home. In his own words, the […]
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