Florian Walter studied Social Anthropology and Ethnology of Latin America in Göttingen, San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Mexico), Puebla (Mexico) and Berlin. He did three years of fieldwork in Chiapas, Mexico. He earned his master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2006. He completed two internships in the framework of the following media projects: Indigenous Photographers and Indigenous Filmmakers, which are associated projects of the CIESAS-Sureste (Research and Advanced Study Centre of Social Anthropology of the Southeast Mexico), San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. Since 2006 he has been in the doctorate program of the BIK (Institute of Cultural Research Bremen), Universität Bremen, and Guest Researcher at the CESMECA-Unicach (Advanced Study Centre of Mexico and Central America – University of Sciences and Arts in Chiapas)in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. From April to October 2005 he was a lecturer of Visual Anthropology at the BUAP (Autonomous University Benemérita of Puebla), Puebla, Mexico. Since April 2007 he has been a lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. Since November 2008 he is guest-lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, EHI (University of Tallinn, Estonia). Besides working on various projects in his documentary film company „Filming Culture“ (www.filmingculture.com), he organizes the film screening of anthropological documentaries at the LNdW (Long Night of Sciences) in Berlin.

Research Florian Walter
Photography Consuelo Saldanya
Sound Pedro Lopez Lopez
Editing Florian Walter, Laura Fong