Vince Heptig

Fellowship Title:

A Documentary of Mayan Culture

Guatemala’s Refugees

Vince Heptig

May 25, 1991

Fellowship Year

1991

APF Fellow Vince Heptig lives in Guatemala City and has been photographing Guatemala’s refugees in Mexico and other locations. In addition to living in poverty, the new generation of refugee children has lost most cultural ties to its Mayan heritage.

A child is carried by her mother, waiting in line for donated food at a refugee camp, La Gloria, in Chiapas, Mexico.

Mateo Gomez in a sparse cornfield in a refugee camp in San Lorenzo, in Chiapas, Mexico. His son, also named Mateo, was born in the camp in 1985. They have little hope of returning to Guatemala.

A young refugee, Luis, sits atop a bag of donated corn in his family’s hut in the Cieneguita camp, Chiapas, Mexico.

An infant and her mother wait for food at the government’s re-education center outside of Nebaj, Guatemala.

Baltazar, age 11, leans on his hoe behind a group of civil patrollers outside of Nebaj, Guatemala.

An almost toothless Gaslisia Cano, 89, waits for help at the re-education center outside of Nebaj.

©1991 Vince Heptig

Vince Heptig, a freelance photographer in Texas, has lived in Guatemala for the past four years.

© 1991
Vince Heptig

Vince Heptig

FELLOWSHIP TITLE

A Documentary of Mayan Culture

FELLOWSHIP ARTICLES