AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JAMES HAYMAN BY LEILA ANTAKLY
Todos Santos, Guatemala, 1976. James Hayman © All rights reserved.
Some of Hayman's earliest photographic work took place shortly after the 1976 earthquake in Guatemala, where he went to aid the U.N.'S disaster relief efforts. While there, he fell in love with the environment and the people who lived there, a trait he would continue throughout all his future travels. Through an unabashedly humanist lens, these photographs depict a time and a place deeply rooted in its historical moment and universal in their exploration of what constitutes beauty, life, and community.