of twenty-six identified war victims killed either in 1982 and 1985. Exhumed from mass graves by members of the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG) in 2006, they were finally a decade later. Xecoyeu, Quiché, Guatemala. 2016.
Guatemala, Life After Genocide, By James Rodríguez
The historical background of this set of photographs was the Guatemala civil war(1960-1996) which caused hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives. The subject matters of this photograph were the relatives of some victims of the war preparing a proper burial for the deads couple decades after their death.
The angle of this photograph is considered high which we can see these people‘s top of heads. With a long depth of field, the audience can see the whole view of this burial preparation activity and understand how seriously those people treat the ritual. There is a diagonal line in this photograph that compose by the path that people are walking on and the part of the mountain on the top right side as landscape. This line leads the audiences’ eyes from the far back to the front which could symbolize the long and difficult path that Guatemalans walkthrough to find the remains of their loved ones and also fight for justice.
Good observations of composition, content and camera angle. Forensic Anthropology organizations like this throughout the world assist families in finding remains of their dead.