Photo Contest 2012 – Anne Laszlo

• “A Picture Builds a Thousand Bridges”
• LOCATION: Concepcion (Guatemala), 2010
• STORY: I toured Guatemala with Culture Xplorers. We traveled to Concepcion, a highland village where we were shyly welcomed. I took many pictures, but one especially captured the gentle spirit of the villagers. Perfect for my 2011 calendar (September) I was creating! I returned to Guatemala (2011) and learned there was another Concepcion visit. Wonderful! I would present the villagers with their own calendar. It was an amazing experience: families crowded around their September picture, pointing, giggling, amid joyful shouts when they spied their faces. A  bridge of community, friendship and respect had been constructed.