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People of the Forest: La Cultura de La Selva Photographs of the Maya by Gertrude Blom

March 5 – May 26, 1985

A destructive pattern of road building, colonization, and cattle ranching is rapidly eradicating the rainforest of the Selva Lacandona in the name of progress, profit and survival. Gertrude Duby Blom captures through her photographs how the traditions of the Lacandon Maya are rapidly changing as development overtakes their environment.     

Participating Artists

Gertrude Blom

Organizing Institution

International Center of Photography and Duke University Center for Documentary Photography

Displayed at

The Chicago Academy of Sciences – Co-sponsored by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum