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I met a lot of faces traveling in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Young, old, happy, sad, defiant, despondent, engaging, apathetic faces. Oaxaca is home to 16 officially recognized indigenous people groups, each tracing their roots to before the Aztec conquest. The men and women pictured here belong to one of two groups living in the mountains north of Tehuantepec – the Zapotec and the Mixe.
I was traveling in Oaxaca with the support of Growers First, meeting and photographing the remote, small-plot coffee farmers they work with. Some of them took me to their coffee farms, some led me around their village, others I met only for a few passing moments. Most of them fed me. This is a collection of the faces and portraits that struck me.