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Living Slowly in Peru

PHOTOS AND ESSAY BY PHOEBE JESKE

I’m in Peru for a month with my parents and brother. My brother and I graduated from college this May, and my mom calls this trip the “hands-on part” of our university education. We want to go further than Machu Picchu and educate ourselves via cultural immersion.
These photos arose out of the desire to bite into a place, to savor its flavor. Although I cannot fully release my American identity, I’ve attempted to capture Peru’s streets through every day, ordinary eyes.

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An Ode to Lima, Peru

BY BRIAN LANGLEY

Lima is an unstoppable, unrelenting surge of human ingenuity, desire, and chaos checked only by the one thing stronger than she—nature, specifically the Pacific Ocean.

Flowing up and out from the ancient Wari people, and the Chancay, and the Lima civilization and flowing down from the heart of Incas, these ancestors found and made communal life in the desert thanks to the rivers Chillón, Rimac, and Lurín, and the bountiful Peruvian seas fed by the Humboldt current coming north from Antarctica.

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