![Bolivia. Durango colony. Mennonite family in front of their house. From right to left: Gerhard Klassen (36), Anna Bren (35) with baby Sarah (1), Heinrich (13), Peter (12), Eva (11), Catarina (9), Anna (8), Gerhard (6), Elisabet (5), Elena (3) and Jacob (2).](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410268371420/0185660d-bfcb-41aa-8f34-eb44f84091f0-620x372.jpeg)
![Mennonite women in the Los Pozos market in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Several times a year the Mennonites need to visit the city to get the things they cannot produce in their colonies.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410268301797/56c74498-6393-4586-bf07-119406016b63-620x372.jpeg)
![A Mennonite home in the Durango colony. The farm belongs to Isaac Banman and his wife Susana. They live here with their 12 sons and daughters.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410271239321/30a6a071-f74e-489d-88a2-f150efcecb63-620x412.jpeg)
![Mennonite family supper at Isaac Banman's home](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410268506500/31c5c587-1487-4e32-86ea-ad9abe3d19e8-620x382.jpeg)
![A Mennonite woman giving birth in the Nueva Esperanza colony, in Santa Cruz](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410270681821/ad69330c-7a06-4194-a85e-47a92189e2b7-620x372.jpeg)
![Colonia Oriente. Mennonite wedding. The bride Sarah Suderman looking at the groom Abraham Henz at a break with the other young members of the Mennonite Colony.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410269471962/48661e16-51d3-4ecf-922b-09dc40be300c-620x372.jpeg)
![Mennonite men praying during the most dramatic moment in mass at the Manitoba colony](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410271139043/f9eab25a-70db-4094-896f-273bc6b50bd3-620x404.jpeg)
![Manitoba Mennonite colony. Girls and boys meet on Sunday to find partners among other things. They do so freely and, since their parents are absent, do forbidden things like drinking alcohol, listen to music or dance.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410269358319/ee41aa5d-a8d4-46e0-a8c6-279c4dc58f5a-620x395.jpeg)
![Manitoba Mennonite colony. It is forbidden to drink alcohol, but when the parents are not around on Sunday...](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410269720390/4e88ce25-1fa0-43f3-905c-9edfd1e6bd65-620x386.jpeg)
![Mennonite funeral of Ana Derkzen, aged 82.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410269531935/903d690c-297a-45e9-a853-724d991bedb2-620x412.jpeg)
![Mennonite girls going to school at 6:30 a.m. (the class starts at 7 a.m.) in the Swift Current colony](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/10/1410339987336/9f1f866e-8184-4102-8281-c6afe5b2462e-620x401.jpeg)
![The school of professor Abraham Neufeld in the Mennonite colony Belice](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410269596701/39aa1cde-efc9-4d9f-9ccc-cb8d810e1e58-620x392.jpeg)
![Mennonite women driving their horse and cart through the Nueva Esperanza colony](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/9/1410271064306/0956ae31-d7b8-413d-9f9e-1de88d7c08ae-620x401.jpeg)
![School of campo 4 in Colonia El Breal, Chaco. Baimin Guenther is the teacher of this school.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/10/1410340218356/0a59aeb3-7028-43f1-9f0f-27ba9905e8e8-620x414.jpeg)
![Professor Peter Janzen's school](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/10/1410340072231/b63bc394-49af-4834-bd58-3744870ca439-620x392.jpeg)
![Night at Maria Fehr farm, Colonia Oriente. Mennonites like to spend some time chatting under the stars before going to sleep.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20140912085439im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/10/1410340136103/971ad8ed-285d-47f0-9db4-08310da56fe7-620x414.jpeg)
Getty Images’ Grants for Editorial Photography, sees five photojournalists each receive a grant of US$10,000, as well as collaborative editorial support from Getty Images, to pursue projects of personal and journalistic significance.
Jordi Busqué’s award-winning portfolio, The Mennonites of Bolivia, documents the lives of the Mennonites, a relatively unknown religious community of European descent, in eastern Bolivia. As the 21st century brings modernity almost everywhere, the Mennonite way of life has remained unchanged since the 16th Century, with this group choosing to live in isolated farming communities and remaining fiercely protective of their privacy.
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