The Devil is leaving his Cave Emin Özmen Exploring a familiar medium with

Exploring a familiar medium with new eyes

made between 2007–2012

function as silent witnesses to the ebb and flow of political

North Dakota

’ Steve Edwards

The Devil is leaving his Cave Emin Özmen Exploring a familiar medium withIn 1991, Wendy Ewald was invited to conduct photography classes for Maya, Ladino, and Tzotzil children living in Chiapas, the southernmost province of Mexico. The sponsoring organization was the Maya writers cooperative, Sna Jtz ibajom (The House of the Writers). While cameras and camcorders were hardly novelties in Chiapas, they were generally used by tourists whose picture taking reinforced their own cultural biases. Ewald did not take pictures;