
Hoja Santa
- Publisher
- Dewi Lewis Publishing
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 978-1-911306-94-8
- Specifications
- Longlisted, Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award 2024
The work explores femininity, religious syncretism and cultural diversity. In 2017 the artist spent a year in the Afro-Mexican village of Costa Chica, in the house of Juliana, a lawyer, and her teenage daughter Veronica; it was Juliana who introduced her to the women of the community — healers, midwives, herbalists — and to the plants, among them the hoja santa, that hold their knowledge together.