How to reach the tribes in the Amazon? I waited for this answer and the following conversation for a long five days without a hinting whisper that I would hear the word, “Yes”. I waited with a passionate conviction that acting shoulder to shoulder with NGO’s would give me even a vague confidence I would soon gain the trust of the tribe of my choice within the deep jungle. Well, I was wrong.
What is it like to be a woman traveling alone to such distant places?
“What is it like to be a woman traveling alone to such distant places? After all, isn’t this idea very dangerous and even more so as a woman?”
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What can fire teach us?
What can fire teach us? During my trip to South America, I met contemporary voyagers. That is, people whose task it is to keep the ritual fire alive. They were shamans chosen for this purpose year-round in Guatemala, in the Maya, or homestead graveyards, and in Varanasi burning the holy fire of corpses. Their dedication and attention to the fire always fascinated me, but I could not understand it. What’s so hypnotic about that? What can the Maya learn from fire knowledge? Why do they believe what the fire says? And what can we recall?
With the Camera and with the Soul on the shoulder
Do you carry a camera with you? Searching for frames nonstop, hunting for slots of reality that can be captured and transformed into art? Can you replace it – instead of the camera – and walk with the soul on your shoulder and to look for the origin of where the visual adventure begins? Two approaches, two separate roads. Which one do you choose?