Woman and Machetes: Nicaragua (1997)

New Archive Photo of the Week: People fighting for their land. Their sovereignty. Their right to exist.

A woman stands in the open kitchen of a wooden thatched-roof hut; two machetes hang within the frame as ordinary tools of daily life in the rainforest. North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN), Nicaragua (Now the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region)— circa 1997 Photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP

One photograph. Five decades of struggle, resistance and memory.

Each week, as hundreds of photographs are digitized from Orin Langelle’s five-decade archive, one image is selected, newly edited, and brought back into public view.

Archive Photo of the Week revisits moments of social, ecological and economic struggle that might otherwise disappear from collective memory—along with the people, places and stories behind them.

From the archive, back into history.

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