MAYA GODED

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Land of Witches

After finishing the work on the series Missing, the women desapaired and killed in the border Mexico-USA, the need to change the destiny, do justice to the impunity and work my own fear, was born. So I decided to make a few trips to northern Mexico, to look for my own healing, and restoring my love for photography. From this trips, this photographic series called Land of Witches was formed.

In Latin America, the Spanish conquest brough with catholic religion the persecution of women related to witchcraft, both spanish and indigenous . These local people, called “shamans” or witch doctors, had a great knowledge on herbs and the balance with their environment. Although the witchhunt was a common practice this beliefs were practiced clandestinely and are still alive trough the Mexican country. This witches I look for, in the most catholic states are a mix of European and Indigenous. In this villages everybody goes to look for them but fearing their power, in the end they are outcasted because they are different from other women living in the village.

Maya Goded