Embrace of the serpent
English
I worked as second assistant director, still photographer, and created both the photographs and the making-of documentary El río bajo el río, for this Ciudad Lunar production that tells the story of Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, who guides two Western scientists —at different moments in the 20th century— in the search for a sacred plant. Inspired by the real journals of explorers Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, the film brings into dialogue two ways of knowing: ancestral Indigenous wisdom and Western scientific inquiry. Through this encounter, it reveals the profound impact of colonialism on Amazonian territories, the loss of cultural memory, and the resistance of those who continue to safeguard knowledge that has long been rendered invisible by dominant history. 2014.

































Exhibited in Translocaciones, imágenes de una nueva era fotográfica, curated by Javier Vanegas and Santiago Forero in Galería El museo, Bogotá, 2016.