Peru

Dancers at La Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria in Puno, on the western shore of Lake Titicaca. The annual parade is one of the largest cultural events in Peru and draws participants from every corner of the country and is broadcast nationwide.

Musicians at La Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria in the southern city of Puno. Indigenous communities from across Peru send delegates to showcase their respective traditional dances. Twenty hours a day for three full days, participants parade th… — Musicians at La Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria in the southern city of Puno. Indigenous communities from across Peru send delegates to showcase their respective traditional dances. Twenty hours a day for three full days, participants parade through the city while an enthused and intoxicated crowd cheers them on.

A vendor sells her wares above Cuzco, the sacred capital of the Incas.

Children play outside the Cathedral in Cochas, in the Peruvian Highlands.

“Hummingbird” is one of the renowned Nazca Lines, an UNESCO World Heritage Site best viewed from the air. The geoglyphs are 2,500 years old, number in the hundreds, and lie outside of Nazca along the country’s central coast.

Women of the Asháninka tribe on the Chanchamayu river outside of the town of La Merced, in the Peruvian rainforest.

A weaver and her granddaughter selling pullos for carrying babies and other traditional Andean textiles at the market in Chinchero, between Cuzco and Machu Picchu.

A woman serves some of the best pork I’ve ever had at the textile market in the Andean village of Chinchero, one of the centers of Peru’s ancient and distinguished weaving tradition.

Staying with family friends in Lima and the central highland city of Huancayo, I experience many of Peru’s different cultures and ecosystems. In a single day I traveled by bus from the desert coast through snowcapped mountains at 15,000’ back down into the dense rainforest. The diversity—in every sense of the word—of Peru is impossible to overstate. All photos taken between January and March, 2015