Landscape Architecture of Farmers

• Photographer
  Marsha del Sol Mildon, Canada

During my first visit to Bolivia and Peru, we visited
Taquile Island in Lake Titicaca, the first land returned to
the Quechua people after the Spanish conquest. The
Quechua follow traditional patterns of their Inca
ancestors from weaving to their use of the hand-built
terraces, a kind of human architecture to strengthen their
mountainous land, reducing erosion, and also to build in
different kinds of soil for specific crops. Like so much in
the Andean lands, form follows function and beauty as
well.

• Awards
  2010 3rd prize Journalism Nature Px3 Solo show at Tulista Gallery Community Art Council July 2014 2015 Honourable Mention Nature Px3 Photo show Island Blue May 2016 Teaching ESL and photography together to children of landless peasants in Mantaro Valley, Peru 2009 Best Documentary 'LifeLines' EyeLens Festival & National Film Institute Online Festival