1963 Cusco Peru. Women penitents outside the Cathedral in the Plaza de Armas, the main square during the Corpus Christi festival. The women are wearing hand-spun clothing with embroidered decoration. This festival is an example of syncretism because it is a major date in the Catholic religious calender and has been super-imposed since Spanish times on the mid-winter festival of the ancient Inca religion.

Camera: MPP Microflex Twin Lens Reflex with f 3.5 77.5mm Taylor Taylor Hobson lens. Film Kodak Verichrome Pan at F5.6 - 1/250 second. Developed by hand in Cusco, using Kodak Microdol at normal dilution.

Negative: Peru 63-21-06 © Tony Morrison