In this series of photographs and texts entitled Creencias de Nuestros Antepasados (Beliefs of our Ancestors, 1994), Maruch Santíz delivers a report that arises from her participation in the Photographic Project of Chiapas. This project, carried out in 1993, supplied the artist, aged 17, with cameras, films, and lab materials for documentary purposes. She combined photographs of everyday objects, nature, and people, with sayings and beliefs of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas, who had no written records. It is a state of emergency experience that she compiles in tzotzil, her mother language. These are not simple photographs of the indigenous, but photographs taken by an Indigenous woman. When she takes the camera, photography ceases to be an instrument of social control to become an instrument of affirmation of her cultural identity.