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Juan Brenner Genesis

n 2008, after hustling for more than a decade in New York as a fashion photographer, Juan Brenner returned to Guatemala, where he was born in 1977, to devote himself to documenting the country’s history as seen through its resilient population and mountainous geography. His urge to discover and say something new led him to his native country’s Western Highlands, a region whose majestic, earth-exuded energy and Indigenous societies marked

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