"Heaton's work documents the fascinating and complex worlds present in Guatemala. Tulane has been a leader in scholarship and archival documentation on Latin America since 1924. I collect research material that offers important historical frameworks for scholarship from and about Latin America, and I appreciate the compelling space Heaton's work occupies between documentary and fine art."
Hortensia Calvo, PhD, Doris Stone Director of The Latin American Library at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

"Tozzer Library at Harvard collects broadly in Guatemalan studies...especially those concerned with the ethnology and archaeology of its indigenous peoples. As the library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, founded in 1866, we began supporting the research of museum archaeologists excavating at Tikal in the 188os, and Mesoamerican studies still forms the core of our library collection. John Edward Heaton's beautiful photographs of contemporary Guatemala complement what we can provide to our students and faculty in so many ways, and we celebrate Ediciones Catherine Docter for bringing them to the wider world's attention."
Janet L. Steins, Associate Librarian for Collections and Research Librarian, Tozzer Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

"John Heaton is well known in Mesoamerica-and increasingly in academia-for his tireless efforts to preserve and record Maya culture and traditions. He has spent much of the past 35 years in Guatemala and his intimate knowledge of its people is reflected in his work. Heaton's visual anthropology provides our collection with important tools for understanding the lives and traditions of the Guatemalan people."
Paula Covington, Latin American and Iberian Bibliographer, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

"For anyone whose interests lie, like mine, in Guatemala, the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley) is a veritable treasure trove of books, documents, maps, and photographs that afford one immense pleasure and reward, especially when consulted in situ. John Heaton's impressive body of visual anthropology, created with stylistic flair by an incisive eye, augments the Bancroft's singular capacity to facilitate research and inquiry into the lands, peoples, and cultures of Central America."
W. George Lovell, FRSC, Professor of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada