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Documentary. Mennonite settlements in Belize (1/1's) 🔸International Photography Awards (IPA) Finalist for the series They are members of an Anabaptist Christian Church. The ancestors of these groups left South Russia in 1873 & settled in Manitoba (Canada), before migrating to Mexico & then British Honduras (Belize) in 1958.
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2/ There are 10 colonies in Belize, a population of 12 000 people. The Mennonites of Belize speak Plautdietsch (Low German) in their daily life.
3/ Women wear bonnets and long dresses and men denim overalls and hats. They use horse and buggy for transportation. 🔸Exhibited in NFT's on Billboards Los Angeles - TBC Billboards / Obscura DAO
4/ ⚡️The journey to the settlements of Shipyard and Springfield in Belize started in Cancun, Mexico
wow, IPA finalist is huge — this series sounds so powerful, documentary work like this really sticks with you 📷
These are gorgeous. I thought Mennonites were not keen on having their photos taken. Were they reluctant at all Love the images and the background
