Photography exhibition QOYLLUR RIT’Í

Deep in the Andes, in the isolated Sinakara valley near Cusco, Peru, every year – when the full moon rises a week before Corpus Christi – Quechua- and Aymara-speaking Andeans celebrate the legendary festival of Qoyllur Rit’í: the indigenous fiesta dedicated to the Lord of the Star Snow.

With the exhibition QOYLLUR RIT’Í – Harvesting the Night at the Star Snow Festival – Brazilian photographer Renan Cepeda has captured the magic and mystery that abounds in one of the most spectacular religious festivals in South America, that serves as a vehicle for the prolongation of pre-columbian cosmology and the cultural defiance of the descendants of the once mighty Inca empire.

QOYLLUR RIT’Í – Harvesting the Night at the Star Snow Festival – by Renan Cepeda

WM Gallery Amsterdam 14 September – 19 October 2013

Thursday - Saturday, 1st Sunday of the month 14-18 hrs

More information about the exhibition on http://www.aiart.nl

The photographer's homepage: http://renancepeda.com