People Who Are Not on the Map

“People Who Are Not on the Map” is how we can call the residents of the villages in Guatemala and Nicaragua, whose lives are unimaginably modest, yet their hearts are immense. People whose lives the author, together with doctors and volunteers, makes a little more bearable and better. Yefrosinia Kapustina is a poet, prose writer, and photojournalist. She heads the photo department at the international charitable organization Health & Help. She has conducted shoots in Russia, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. A winner of the international competition “Friendship Bridge”, a finalist for the “Lyceum” award named after A.S. Pushkin. A seatmate could not stand the commotion nearby and asked the man: — Why do you need a kitten? — Well, maybe later it will guard my house from mice. But that's later. For now, I will guard it from all bad things. He looked at me as if seeking support: — Am I right? I nodded. Yefrosinia Kapustina, a stranger in this exotic life on the other side of the world, looks at it with a familiar gaze. She is a volunteer photographer in a remote Latin American village, and her gaze is intense: “A tired mother sleeps on a bench, while her child at her feet eats sand, a banana peel, and a dog's tail simultaneously” (Yuri Buyda).