Photographer Jake Michaels documented life in Belize's Mennonite colonies, where members of the conservative protestant sect shun modern technology and contact with wider society.
Homesteads dotting a pastoral landscape, families living by lamplight and men in straw hats riding horse-drawn carriages -- the scenes in Jake Michaels' photographs could easily depict bygone times in the American Midwest. But not only do his pictures hail from the digital age, they were taken hundreds of miles away in Belize.
A husband and wife stand outside their home, with only the lush vegetation hinting at the photo's surprising location: Belize. "Seventy-five percent of the images could be presented in a way where you would never know it's the tropics," said photographer Jake Michaels.Hoping to document their traditional way of life, Michaels visited three Mennonite colonies in Belize's north -- Indian Creek, Shipyard and Little Belize.
"My whole practice shifted as the days like went on. My mind slowed down, and I was more present in the surroundings," he said, adding:"I'm not trying to say that their lives are simple, but I think it, for me, it just allowed me to slow down and be more present."But the photographer was also wary of romanticizing this remote way of life.
"Their world intersects far more now with the modern world than it did before," Michaels said."There are several Mennonites who work in tandem with Belizean people, so they're aware of the outside world and what's going on.
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