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<h1 class="css-twhgrd">Photographer Captures The
Breathtaking Beauty Of Mexico’s Indigenous Communities</h1>
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<div>Diego Huerta's goal is to document all of
the indigenous groups in the country.</div>
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alt="Tehuana women wearing
their traditional headdress.
The Tehuana-style of clothes
was popularized by Mexican
icon Frida Kahlo."> <figcaption>Tehuana
women wearing their
traditional headdress. The
Tehuana-style of clothes was
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Tehuana women wearing their
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<p>"Oaxaca was something that had to
happen, it was something that I
didn’t look for. It simply
occurred." </p>
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<p>That's how photographer <a
href="https://www.instagram.com/diegohuertaphoto/">Diego
Huerta</a> describes his work in
the southern Mexican state, where he
has diligently traveled to for the
past four years to document its
indigenous communities with
breathtaking portraits. </p>
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<p>The 30-year-old Mexican
photographer began working on this
project, titled "Inside
Oaxaca," after traveling to Oaxaca
and inadvertently witnessing <a
href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/guelaguetza/pool/">the
Guelaguetza</a>, its biggest
annual celebration and parade that
features traditional dances and
customs from the States' eight
regions.</p>
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<p>"I was struck by all the colors and
by the faces of the various
delegations, and I wanted to know
where they came from," Huerta told
The Huffington Post via e-mail. "It
was at that moment that I knew I had
to go to their place of origin to
know more about their traditions and
customs and document them via my
portraits."</p>
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alt="Huerta says this photo of a
Tehuana woman and a dog is one
of his favorites. "We
traveled about 8 kilometers on a
dirt road that took us to the
sea, when we finally arrived we
walked toward some sand dunes I
saw in the distance. On the way
there a dog began following
us," he said. "As soon
as we stopped the dog got close
to her and laid down next to
her, finding the shade she made
with the sun.""> <figcaption>Huerta
says this photo of a Tehuana
woman and a dog is one of his
favorites. "We traveled about 8
kilometers on a dirt road that
took us to the sea, when we
finally arrived we walked toward
some sand dunes I saw in the
distance. On the way there a dog
began following us," he said.
"As soon as we stopped the dog
got close to her and laid down
next to her, finding the shade
she made with the sun."</figcaption>
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Huerta says this photo of a
Tehuana woman and a dog is one of
his favorites. "We traveled about
8 kilometers on a dirt road that
took us to the sea, when we
finally arrived we walked toward
some sand dunes I saw in the
distance. On the way there a dog
began following us," he said. "As
soon as we stopped the dog got
close to her and laid down next to
her, finding the shade she made
with the sun."
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<p>About <a
href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/IndigenousPeoplesRightsInMexico.aspx">15
percent of the Mexican population
identifies as indigenous</a>,
according to the United Nations
Human Rights Council. That number
jumps to 56 percent in Oaxaca, where
there are <a
href="http://www.history.com/topics/mexico/oaxaca">16
different indigenous groups</a>. </p>
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<p>"In Oaxaca something very
interesting happens: there is a mix
of the modern and the traditional,
of <a
href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/IndigenousPeoplesRightsInMexico.aspx">the
indigenous people and the mestizo
people</a>, that fight to conserve
that indigenous part that they
inherited," Huerta told HuffPost.
"The portraits that I’ve done are
from four of the eight regions that
exist in Oaxaca (after four years
I’m only halfway through the
project) and they are people that
I’ve met directly in the villages or
small towns that I’ve visited. Some
of those people I can now call my
friends." </p>
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<p>As part of his project, Huerta
travels to remote parts of the State
and has photographed women and men
from the Zapotec, Mixtecos, Mixes
and Chontales communities. His
project in Oaxaca will feed into a
larger photo endeavor he has planned
called <a
href="http://behindmystories.com/portfolio/nativenation/">"Native
Nation,"</a> which consists of
documenting Mexico's more than 50
indigenous groups. </p>
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<p>The Austin-based photographer
shares many of his portraits <a
href="https://www.instagram.com/diegohuertaphoto/">on
his Instagram account.</a> In the
long run, Huerta hopes that his
photo projects create "an empathy
for indigenous people, and that that
empathy be a trigger to respect them
and value them," he said.
"Discrimination doesn't only exist
in the United States. In Mexico
there's a high degree of
discrimination against native
people. And there's a lot of
ignorance from modern society
towards them."</p>
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<p>Check out some of Huerta's photos
from "Inside Oaxaca" below, and more
on <a
href="https://www.instagram.com/diegohuertaphoto/">his
Instagram account</a>.</p>
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