It is with great pride that The Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York and Club Balam of Chiapas present our latest photographic collaboration. These two clubs, a sisterhood of young photographers, represent the best qualities of our new 21st century global reality. Through international travel we have had the opportunity to experience each other’s world in person. Through the medium and practice of photography we have come to deeply know and respect each other’s culture. While we have been able to communicate visually with ease, now, with the publication of ABC Mi Cultura, we begin to share our oral traditions as well.
The photographs in this book have been taken by the young women (and a few young men) in the leadership and photography program led by our Club Balam instructors Margarita Martínez Pérez and Maruch Sántiz Gómez. This program currently meets at the Yo’onik Learning Center in Zinacantan.