Nina Gualinga, co-founder of Passu Creativa, celebrates the resilience and richness of Indigenous cultures through photography and storytelling. With words by Nina Gualinga. Moments captured by Nina Gualinga, Elizabeth Swanson, Bolo Miranda, Sani Montahuano, Enoc Merino, Tsunki Shacay, River Claure, and Tawna Collective.
Nina was a juror for our global open call, The Tree of Life: A Love Letter to Nature, and this week, at the ninth edition of the PhotoVogue Festival, she will be moderating the panel Indigenous Voices: Honoring Cultural Heritage.
Shunku
Heart
The Amazon rainforest is more than a place;
she is a living being,
full of memory,
full of stories
Her soil is rich with the wisdom of countless generations.
In her lives the resilience of saplings that grow
where the earth has been scarred
She is the heart of this Earth
beating with the same conviction
that lives in every mother,
standing firm as the roots of the ceiba tree
fighting for her people, for her territory
for all children of this Earth
for she carries the dreams of those who have come before,
and the hopes of those who are yet to be born
