Professional quality photographic exhibits are available of the following:

• Cacao (Cocoa), Chocolate & Vanilla: Maya & Mesoamerica

• Incense & Sacred Resins of the Maya

• The Mythical Water Lily in Maya Art & Ritual & Diet

• Ceiba and Sacred Trees of the Maya; Iconography of Incense Burners & Urns

• Maya Ethnobotany: Exotic Tropical Fruits & Unusual Vegetables of Guatemala, Belize, Mexico and Honduras

These are professional photographs taken with a 22-megapixel Phase One digital camera back on a Hasselblad, with Zeiss lenses, taken with a Nikon D200, Nikon D300, or Canon EOS 5D.

Because these are not just snapshots, the exhibit is of a higher quality.

Ceiba spines in Tikal Guatemala, photo by Nicholas Hellmuth.

Cacao fruit, sacred plant of Maya civilization.

Exhibit costs:

A basic fee is requested to assist for the preparation of the exhibit.

If you wish to print a brochure, or even a booklet (or an entire book), our graphic designers can do this with your team, or can do it all for you.

Printing, mounting, hanging the exhibit will depend on your local situation, where you are located. Often it is less cost to print the images at a photo lab in your town, to keep down costs of shipping.

FLAAR works with various NGO’s in Guatemala and with local non-profit associations in Guatemala too. So often an exhibit would be co-sponsored with these Guatemalan organizations, with appropriate credit to their name and logo. For opening ceremonies it would be appropriate to invite and list their key Board members.

It is expected that there will be some sort of an opening event, with Dr Hellmuth to be invited. He is naturally available to speak, or to give a lecture (or an entire session on Maya ethnobotany; it’s your choice). Either way there would be round trip transportation, lodging, etc, and a basic honorarium. For our regular lectures on advanced digital imaging technology, Dr Hellmuth is usually paid international rates as would be expected. For any lecture at a museum, university, college, school, etc, the fee is reduced, though if a local company is sponsoring the event, we don’t turn down an offer of the entire fee (it goes to the institute anyway, not into Dr Hellmuth’s personal bank account).

Professor Hellmuth is also available to give an entire seminar, course or longer program on Maya ethnobotany in general.

The exhibit is yours to keep; you do not need to send the photos back to FLAAR (because they will be costly to ship, and your patrons and sponsors would probably enjoy having them to hang in their homes or offices, and some of your museum or university officials might like some to hang in their homes or offices after the exhibit is over).

If you wish to “rent” the exhibit to other locations within your city or local area, this can be negotiated, with a portion of any new exhibit fee going to FLAAR and a portion to your entity for arranging a second exhibit venue.

Papaya flowers, is a exotic plants from Guatemala.
Water Lily, sacred plant of Maya Civilization.

First posted February 2008.