PERU Photographic Travelogue

Peru·Photographic Travelogue Woodstock on the Summit

Published by China Photographic Publishing House

September.2012

Photographer Zhong Weixing

ISBN 978-7-80236-796-8

 

Preface：

"I waitedmorethanoneyearjust彤shootthis！"sighed photographer Zhong Weixing.One year previously ,the photographer had visited Cuzco with the aim of capturing rare images of traditional Peruvian society,but with only hotels surrounding Machu Picchu,he was unable to fulfill his wishes.When he returned to Cuzco for Inti Raymi,he heard about the Qoyllur Rit'i festival was already finished for the year.Thus arose the plans for this trip.

Perhaps it was the warmness inherent to South Americans,or perhaps it has to do with the well-documented  effects of the Maca Plant,but people here habitually pour forth with emotion,the result of psycholofical
transformation related to fundamental religious belief.and from the very beginning of this long pilgrimage,they collectively entered into something close to a mad tntoxication.All were singing and dancing as they journeyed together toward the summit of the mountain.It wasn't at all the solemn,reverent ceremony on the mountain peak that we had imagined.Then again,was it these worshippers' passionate nature that compelled them to define their convictions by joyfully expressing themselves?Every single person on the pilgrimage was a participant among peers in this grand occasion,in contrast to our conspicuousness as bystanders...