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The soul of Guanacaste in pictures.
The province of Guanacaste in Costa Rica has some fascinating natural landscapes, warm and friendly people and colorful traditions that the Colombian journalist and photographer, Zoraida Diaz, captured with her camera.
The reporter developed a photographic project about said province which she details in her book, Guancaste: Retratos de Vida/Life portraits.
The official launch of the book will be tomorrow at the Hotel Reservation Conchal, in Guanacaste. There will also be another presentation in San Jose later on.
As co-founder of the English newspaper, The Beach Times, Diaz has lived in Playa Potrero for five years and her job is to document the daily events in the province through photographs. The book is the result of a project that seeks to give permanence to a job that is fleeing by nature.
“In a newspaper, a photograph is published and there is another the next day about a different subject which is why continuity is lost. I decided to develop a photographic documentary project, with a human face on the day to day life in Guanacaste,” said Diaz.
The final product is a book with 160 pages and 150 color and black and white images that tell the story of Guanacaste from the experiences of its people.
The portraits of ordinary people in their daily lives vividly describe the natural and cultural richness of Guanacaste. “Many of the photographic publications about Guanacaste are about natural its beauty. While it is true that it cannot be ignored, the spirit, the essence of this province includes many other aspects,” detailed Diaz.
For that reason, the book is organized into four thematic blocks: landscape “Pampas and the sea,” people, traditions and festivities.
The arrival of the Pacific ridley turtles in Ostional, the festivities in honor of the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a crocodile hunter in full fatigues and the legendary bull “Malacrianza,” weighing in at 650 kilos are some of the Guanacaste prints in the book.
Villagers also participated actively in the proposal because it included several papers written by prominent personalities from the area who share their vision of what it means to be from Guanacaste, which is part of the pride that exists in Costa Rica.
They include songwriters Balo Eduardo Gomez and Guadalupe Urbina, the marine biologist Giovanni Bassey and agronomist Carlos Arauz.
TicosLand.com invites you to look for this publication in bookstores and to support this innovative project, which allows us to be closer to those images of Costa Rica which we often don’t appreciate.
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