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“Nature:Healing:Human” è un progetto in svolgimento che analizza la connessione con il mondo della natura e il ruolo che essa gioca nei processi di guarigione. Le opere sono interpretazioni di ciò che si può imparare dalle culture che mantengono una profonda connessione con la natura e la riveriscono, e indagano su come questa connessione vada a riflettersi sulla salute, la fiducia in se stessi, i rituali e la lingua.

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Fermin Murayani Aquilar is 75 years old and has been a practicing shaman since he was 16. He is a herbalist as well as a vaporadora. He lives in Comunidad Serjalillo Fundo Sireno Delfin in the Peruvian rainforest. He is Ashaninca and Cocama Cacamilla. Most of the healings take place in the evenings when the spirits of the rainfores are strongest. Here a family from a surrounding community has come to live with him for several days while he works with the father of the family who has pain in his stomach. Senor Fermin will massage him and sing healing songs throughout the evening.
In the community Francisco Tzinquiato there is a young 11 year old Vaporadora girl named Mircyla Prado Pintallo. She learned the trade at 9 from an elder Vaporadora. The Ashaninica people of the Peruivan rainforest are the only tribe to use vapor to heal. Many Vaporadora are also herbalists and have knowledge of which plants to use for specific aliments. Mircyla is still learning the plants but she one specific plant for healing that she puts in the water when is it heated called Pidi Pidi (check spelling) The process takes place by heating rocks to heat the water, collecting herbs and having the patient stand over the heat. This usually takes place three times and then the leaves are read to see what the problems are or if they have been relieved.

Erika Larsen

Erika Larsen, fotografa e narratrice multidisciplinare, è conosciuta per i suoi lavori sulle culture che mantengono un forte legame con la natura.

Il suo lavoro è esposto presso la Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, la National Geographic Society, Fotografiska Museum and Ajtte Sámi Museum. Larsen ha ricevuto varie borse di studio e riconoscimenti, tra i quali la Fulbright Fellowship, la New Jersey State Arts Council Fellowship, il Women in Photography Individual Project Grant e i Lois Roth Endowment e World Press Award.

La sua prima monografia, Sami-Walking With Reindeer, è stata pubblicata nel 2013. Attualmente Larsen è membro “Fellow and Explorer” della National Geographic Society.