Marching on Copacabana

The hordes of musicians and dancers continued to stream down the hill under the banner of Paceña, the beer from La Paz. Getting this close for the shot gave me a bit of an ear drubbing, but I think it was worth it. My eardrums have had worse anyway. I love the hands on this…

The Young Untouchables

Here’s another diptych of the stars of any Bolivian Fiesta, the musicians. These two young guys are in a group called Los Intocables (meaning the untouchables, but with the double pun to the effect of ‘the unplayables’ in a musical sense because the verb to touch also means ‘to play’ in a musical context in…

Bolivian Brass

It seems that this month’s Bolivian Fiesta theme has so far been dominated by diptychs. I find diptychs tend to work best when they display two photographs taken in the same place around the same time. This is because the photographs will usually have been taken under similar lighting conditions and will thus involve similar…