Mayan Ruins


  • Photographer
    Sandra Herber
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2016

This series of infrared images of Mayan ruins were taken in the Mexican states of Yucatan and Campeche. There are many famous Mayan ruins open to the public – Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Santa Rosa Xtampak, just to name a few – but there are hundreds of smaller ruins still found in farmers’ fields, on private ranches and deep in the jungle. Many of these are almost overcome by trees, vines and other vegetation. These are the ruins I enjoy photographing the most: the remote, the hidden, the forgotten. I find infrared particularly appropriate to photograph these sites. The way it interacts with the vegetation creates a wonderful, magical aura that evokes the wonder of coming upon the ruins in the jungle, but also the power of the trees and vines struggling to reclaim these ancient structures, here for over a thousand years.

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