Living in Guatemala City

In 2006 I spent a few weeks in and around Guatemala City, photographing and interviewing people who live there. Guatemala is a politically polarized country, exhausted from 36 years of civil war, during which 200,000 people were killed. Since the end of the war in 1996, the country, particularly the capital, has become increasingly violent, to the extent that the World Health Organisation characterises it as suffering from 'a pandemic of violence'. People live day-to-day in a city where it is the norm that buses are hijacked, corruption is endemic, shops are protected by armed guards, and poverty is ever-present. These images represent just a few of these families.

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