On December 12th I photographed the Our Lady of the Guadalupe festival in Leadville–a commemoration of the image of the Virgin Mary miraculously appearing to a peasant on a hill near Mexico City in 1531. Throughout the day I followed the Hispanic population of Leadville, lead mostly by the youth dressed in colorful Aztec attire, as they marched from the trailer park two miles outside of town, to the Catholic church, and ultimately to the 6th street gym, dancing nearly all day long in celebration of their most popular religious and cultural symbol.

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