Guaruma MonthlyJuly 2011

Guaruma is a Honduras based non-profit organization promotingenvironmental awareness and conservation through educational

programs in the Rio Cangrejal watershed on the Eastern border of thePico Bonito National Park.

To accomplish this, Guaruma provides after school classes in English,Computation, Environmental Studies, and Photography. With these

classes the students learn how to take better care of their environment, communicate with tourists, and showcase where they live..

In the Guaruma Monthly Review we show some of the best photographs by our students over the past month.

ENJOY!Benjamin Katz—Director of Photography

Guaruma Monthly July 2011Volume I

Edition IVCopyright © 2011 Organización Guaruma

Each individual photographer retains ownershipof the following images.

Printed with Minion Pro Font

Cover Art by Martha BanegasBack Cover Art by Angela Banegas

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Table of Contents

Photographs in the Moment 1The Natural Form of Things 9Capturing the Beauty of Life 35

Photographs in the Moment

The focus of photography varies from person to person, from artist to artist.

Henri Cartier-Bresson espoused the idea of capturing the moment, of freezing life and holding it forever in a photograph.

Here our students have worked to show a similar kind of passion and appreciation

for the moments that life gives.

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2Denny Perez

3 Wendy Lobo

4Melvin Reyes

5 Marilu Pinto

6Yader Velasquez

7 Luis Enrique Velasquez

8Fernando Velasquez

9 Anabel Funez

10Gerson Zuniga

11 Julio Medina

12Riccy Mencuas

13 Adolfo López

The Natural Form of Things

In photography, as inlife we seek to find some sort of order, whether it be

understood, implied, or evensubconscious. In photography one way to do so is to search for the form of an

image. How the water falls, how the leaves overlap, the curvature of the sky or the process of waiting at the bus-stop . . .

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15 Angela Banegas

16Rosvinda Acosta

17 Eduard Perez

18Luis Enrique Velasquez

19 Orlando Matute

20Yefri Castro

21 Gerson Obed López

22Rosvinda Acosta

23 Cristhian Cruz

24Mariela Perez

25 Danny Perez

26Gerson Zuniga

27 Gerson Obed López

28Angela Banegas

29 Idalia Banegas

30Martha Banegas

31 Martha Banegas

32Sofia Pinto

33 Rosalina Pinto

34Rosvinda Acosta

Capturing the Beauty of Life

Life is more than just a posed image of friends. Life consists of all sorts ofmoments and beauty, of calm and

upheaval. Life is beautiful and more than anything else this beauty is what the

students of Guaruma try to show.

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36Wendy Lobo

37 Eduard Perez

38Erika López

39 Selvin Alvarenga

40Mariela Perez

41 Selvin Alvarenga

42Adolfo López

43 Julio Medina

Thank you for stopping by to view our work. The students here in la Cuenca of the Cangrejal River have worked very

hard and hope that you come view their photographs again each month.

thanks for stopping byvisit us at

www.guaruma.org