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The Author:
                      James A. Rodríguez

1972 – 1986      Raised in Mexico City, Mexico.

1986 – 1999      Educated in Los Angeles, California, USA.
                        UCLA class of 1996: B.A. in Cultural Geography. 

1996 – 1999      Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst and Cartographer for the
                        Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

1999 – 2002      Participated in the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program as an Assistant
                        Language Teacher in Kagoshima City, Japan. 

           2003      Spanish language teacher on Peace Boat’s 41st and 43rd Global Peace Voyages. 

2004 – 2005      Human rights observer for Peace Brigades International’s (PBI) Guatemala project. 

           2005      English language teacher in Curitiba, Brazil, while studying Portuguese. 

2005 – 2006      English staff writer and photographer for Peace Boat’s 52nd Global Peace Voyage.

2006 – 2007      Independent Photojournalist documenting Guatemala's Post-War Social Movement.
                        Will display current work in the form of photo essays in the following blog.


The Photographs:
 

Unless noted otherwise, every photograph in this web-site was taken by the author. 
The cameras of choice have mostly been in the Canon family:
EOS 650 & 7 when using 35mm film.
PowerShot Pro 1 and EOS 20D when shooting digitally.

Any interest in using a photograph, please contact the author. 
I am willing to release rights at no charge as long as it is for non-profit use.


Covering the Evictions of Indigenous Communities in Guatemala as ordered by a Canadian Mining Company.
                 January 9, 2007: Barrio La Revolución. El Estor, Guatemala.             Photo by: Dawn Paley