Far, quiet, peaceful. Two hours upstream from Leticia in fastboat, Puerto Nariño is a small town of few thousand souls mainly from Ticuna, Huitoto and Cocama native tribes. Everything is recycled in the town and no car or motorbike is allowed. At dusk people meet at the main square to chat, eat, socialize. With tourism …
Postcard from One End of the World. Village of Puerto Narino, Amazonia, Colombia. / Charles Mordret @canadienerrant
Teenagers having fun in the mud. End of afternoon in Santa-Rosa, the village facing Leticia, on the Peruvian side of the Amazon. /Charles Mordret @canadienerrant
Our companion in the forest. I hear very interesting stories about the relationship between humans and their dogs in some native cultures. In some of them young dogs are forced to absorb a very strong purgative tobacco concoction in order to be pure of bad spirits and tough enough for the hostile environment. Some others …
Parrots by thousands and some children. Today 5PM. Leticia, Colombia. / Charles Mordret @canadienerrant
I asked Segundo, my Peruvian guide, to show me the jewels of his forest, particularly the trees targeted by illegal loggers. He stopped on our way to show me a specimen of the tallest of Amazonia, the millenial Ceiba, king of all trees. I had in mind while adjusting my camera what Napoleon said to …
Good morning it’s Charles Mordret @canadienerrant posting from Leticia, the Colombian capital of Amazonia. A minute after I took this photo in front of my guesthouse, just as I am writing this, a very heavy rain started. I’ll stick to my plan of going to walk in the forest on the Peruvian side as my …
Gianmarco Maraviglia The Body in Crisis According to a study by the Greek Center for Social Sciences, prostitution has increased by 150% in two years. The economic crisis that has afflicted Greece for years has had very profound, sometimes intimate, effects. In the center of Athens, around Omonia Square, dozens of prostitutes, often drug addicts; …
