Quinceañera

I had the opportunity to shoot a Quinceañera last summer and it was a great experience. A Quinceañera is the celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday in parts of Latin America and elsewhere in communities of people from Latin America. Latin myths and tradition tell about how girls were prepared to be married by the age of fifteen. In the years prior to their fifteenth birthdays, girls were taught to cook, weave, and about child rearing by the elder women in their communities in preparation for their lives as married women.