Photographs of the Flying and Climbing Cholitas of El Alto, Bolivia


New Zealand-born photographer Todd Antony's recent project, Cholitas, focuses on the Bolivian Cholita climbers and wrestlers of El Alto.




Historically Bolivia’s indigenous Aymara women were systematically marginalised, forced to work as servants for Spanish occupiers and to wear long skirts and bowler hats. Today Cholitas have taken their fight against racism, classism and sexism to the wrestling ring and the mountains wearing traditional layered skirts and colorful shawls.

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