Sara Ayllu

In Quechua, “Sara” is for corn or maize—”Ayllu” is for a community or extended family.

This photographic essay follows one farming couple and the small community surrounding their cornfield, observing the intimate, everyday relationships that sustain a landscape shaped by thousands of years of agricultural knowledge. Against a changing climate and growing pressures on traditional agricultural practices and maize diversity, the field becomes a small window into a larger question: what does it mean to maintain a living relationship with the land?