{"id":12741,"date":"2023-01-13T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.captionmagazine.org\/?p=12741"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:31:13","slug":"escuela-efe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.captionmagazine.org\/en\/new-perspectives\/escuela-efe","title":{"rendered":"Escuela Efe"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Escuela Efe was born from the need to learn and teach about the gaze in Guatemala. In 2018, during the first generation of the Visual Training Program, a program that teaches us to see from different perspectives using photography as an observation tool, the Efe Photography School was launched, whose main objective is to teach us about our own gaze and the first steps to develop it.<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

In 2019, it begins with the first annual photography course that ranges from knowledge of the technique to the development and exhibition of a personal project. The exhibitions of the students of the Annual Photography Course have been held at the Spanish Cooperation Training Center in Antigua and the UNIS-ROZAS BOTR\u00c1N Museum.<\/p>\r\n

In 2022, the first promotion of Professional Photographic Certification is launched, as a continuation of the Annual Photography Course. In this Certification we invite international photographers residing in El Salvador, Brazil, Spain and Korea to give master classes. Part of the results of this promotion is the use of the students’ photographs in a FUJI-INSTAX campaign, Exhibition of 5 works at the UNAM in Mexico within the framework of the International Kaleidoscope Photography Meeting 2022 and Cuba in 2023.<\/p>\r\n

In just After 4 years of existing as an institution, Escuela Efe has graduated 110 people in the Annual Photography Course and Professional Photographic Certification. It is on this same anniversary that the Efe Collective, the CIRMA-EFE Collection and the EFE-Photo Tour were launched.<\/p>\r\n

Efe School of Photography and Image Center is more than a place where courses are taught. We are leaders of a movement that changes the future of photography in Guatemala.<\/p>\r\n

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Food of the Gods<\/h3>\r\n

By Daniel Calderon<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Food of the Gods (Alimento de los Dioses) was a learning experience, being able to portray in an intimate way the process in which Do\u00f1a Juanita Cajas de Cital\u00e1n makes chocolate from the cocoa beans. Cocoa, being an ancient fruit, was used by the Mayans to make ancestral drinks and likewise as currency, it gives us such a unique product which allows us to make foods that last throughout history. Do\u00f1a Juanita, who opens the doors of her home in Quetzaltenango for me, in such a pleasant way, explains to us that the production of chocolate begins when she receives the cacao seeds, which she lets dry in the sun for a period, and then toasts them in a comal or a griddle as the grandmothers used to do. Following this she proceeds to grind the seeds, which, with her very secret recipe of ingredients, she manages to homogenize a thick paste, in order to pat it down to create the chocolate tablets which she makes by hand one by one.<\/p>\r\n

Do\u00f1a Juanita, at 92 years old, accompanied by her granddaughter Andrea, who is the heir to the recipe, allowed us to delve into this experience so rich in history and wisdom. I left his home full of knowledge, with an aroma of chocolate impregnated in the depths of me and my palate wanting to continue tasting that magnificent flavor, grateful to be able to portray him and share his legacy, which I hope will last in history.<\/p>\r\n