Misiones land offered these immigrants everything that was needed to settle down and mend their broken souls. Not only were they hard workers and experienced farmers but they also moved and acted in a surprisingly respectful and quiet way. They were there for peace.
On the top of the truck heading towards the Mezcal plantations before a long harvesting day. Mezcaleros, like most of the rural communities in developing countries, struggle. But the story of mezcal in the Oaxacan hills is an optimistic one: the chance for farmers and communities to be independent and self-sustainable.Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Oaxaca, 2019.
August 30, 2022: San Luis, Colorado. Part of the Move Mountain’s Youth group gets the field ready for the Bolita bean harvest. The sunflowers grew on top of the beans providing some shade and shelter, but need to be picked up before the bean harvest. Photo by Jimena Peck
Beef- Tryon, Nebraska - February 25, 2022: Cash Kemp walks outside the barn after unsaddling the horse. Jimena Peck for the Wall Street Journal
Jimena Peck is a Denver based Editorial and Commercial Photographer. Her style is natural, simple; classic yet contemporary.
She truly believes in blurring the edges between studio and real life, applying the finer points of each to achieve a unique look that captures the essential beauty of her subjects.
Although she is currently based in Denver, Colorado, as you can see in her Photography Portfolio, she has been documenting and traveling around the world during the last 10 years.
Travels are her dearest treasures and inspiration. Check out more of her work and follow along at www.jimenapeck.com
The festivities betray glimpses of history in motion; the arrival of immigrants who have formed strengthened communities over time. The pain of the breaks in the lives of those who were before is traced in the echo of the stories that live through the generations, where they came from, what houses they left on the other side of the world to go in search of new homes, what cracks to the past are still present today in the life of the communities in Misiones.
Jimena Peck is a Denver based Editorial and Commercial Photographer. Her style is natural, simple; classic yet contemporary.
She truly believes in blurring the edges between studio and real life, applying the finer points of each to achieve a unique look that captures the essential beauty of her subjects.
Although she is currently based in Denver, Colorado, as you can see in her Photography Portfolio, she has been documenting and traveling around the world during the last 10 years.
Travels are her dearest treasures and inspiration. Check out more of her work and follow along at www.jimenapeck.com
Denver Food Photographer
Denver, Colorado - October 28, 2022: Portrait of Debbie Navejas Aguilar in her home in Denver. Navejas Aguilar, is suing two El Paso Police Department officers and the city of El Paso for the “extreme physical and psychological injury” to her dad, Armando Navejas, who died last March after five long months in rehabilitation after being tasered by a Police officer. Jimena Peck for The Marshall Project
Denver Food Photographer
The Chamulas, as the Tzotzil people in this region are called, merged their pantheistic traditions of dance and music and food with the Day of the Dead and All Souls Day, the Catholic holidays that span the 1st and 2nd of November, when the veil between worlds thins and the dead return to visit. San Juan Chamula, Mexico, 2019.
Jimena Peck is a Denver based Editorial and Commercial Photographer. Her style is natural, simple; classic yet contemporary.
She truly believes in blurring the edges between studio and real life, applying the finer points of each to achieve a unique look that captures the essential beauty of her subjects.
Although she is currently based in Denver, Colorado, as you can see in her Photography Portfolio, she has been documenting and traveling around the world during the last 10 years.
Travels are her dearest treasures and inspiration. Check out more of her work and follow along at www.jimenapeck.com
Misiones land offered these immigrants everything that was needed to settle down and mend their broken souls. Not only were they hard workers and experienced farmers but they also moved and acted in a surprisingly respectful and quiet way. They were there for peace.
On the top of the truck heading towards the Mezcal plantations before a long harvesting day. Mezcaleros, like most of the rural communities in developing countries, struggle. But the story of mezcal in the Oaxacan hills is an optimistic one: the chance for farmers and communities to be independent and self-sustainable.Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Oaxaca, 2019.
August 30, 2022: San Luis, Colorado. Part of the Move Mountain’s Youth group gets the field ready for the Bolita bean harvest. The sunflowers grew on top of the beans providing some shade and shelter, but need to be picked up before the bean harvest. Photo by Jimena Peck
Beef- Tryon, Nebraska - February 25, 2022: Cash Kemp walks outside the barn after unsaddling the horse. Jimena Peck for the Wall Street Journal
Jimena Peck is a Denver based Editorial and Commercial Photographer. Her style is natural, simple; classic yet contemporary.
She truly believes in blurring the edges between studio and real life, applying the finer points of each to achieve a unique look that captures the essential beauty of her subjects.
Although she is currently based in Denver, Colorado, as you can see in her Photography Portfolio, she has been documenting and traveling around the world during the last 10 years.
Travels are her dearest treasures and inspiration. Check out more of her work and follow along at www.jimenapeck.com
The festivities betray glimpses of history in motion; the arrival of immigrants who have formed strengthened communities over time. The pain of the breaks in the lives of those who were before is traced in the echo of the stories that live through the generations, where they came from, what houses they left on the other side of the world to go in search of new homes, what cracks to the past are still present today in the life of the communities in Misiones.
Jimena Peck is a Denver based Editorial and Commercial Photographer. Her style is natural, simple; classic yet contemporary.
She truly believes in blurring the edges between studio and real life, applying the finer points of each to achieve a unique look that captures the essential beauty of her subjects.
Although she is currently based in Denver, Colorado, as you can see in her Photography Portfolio, she has been documenting and traveling around the world during the last 10 years.
Travels are her dearest treasures and inspiration. Check out more of her work and follow along at www.jimenapeck.com
Denver Food Photographer
Denver, Colorado - October 28, 2022: Portrait of Debbie Navejas Aguilar in her home in Denver. Navejas Aguilar, is suing two El Paso Police Department officers and the city of El Paso for the “extreme physical and psychological injury” to her dad, Armando Navejas, who died last March after five long months in rehabilitation after being tasered by a Police officer. Jimena Peck for The Marshall Project
Denver Food Photographer
The Chamulas, as the Tzotzil people in this region are called, merged their pantheistic traditions of dance and music and food with the Day of the Dead and All Souls Day, the Catholic holidays that span the 1st and 2nd of November, when the veil between worlds thins and the dead return to visit. San Juan Chamula, Mexico, 2019.
Jimena Peck is a Denver based Editorial and Commercial Photographer. Her style is natural, simple; classic yet contemporary.
She truly believes in blurring the edges between studio and real life, applying the finer points of each to achieve a unique look that captures the essential beauty of her subjects.
Although she is currently based in Denver, Colorado, as you can see in her Photography Portfolio, she has been documenting and traveling around the world during the last 10 years.
Travels are her dearest treasures and inspiration. Check out more of her work and follow along at www.jimenapeck.com