these photos were taken during my time living with indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon between 2013 and 2017. these communities face hyper paced industrialization and resource extraction.
this long-term project asks : how do humans maintain grace in the face of cataclysm?
from 2013-2014 I lived in a remote community of Waorani people, who accepted me as family and with whom I now have a continuing relationship. these recently contacted indigenous people are faced with oil extraction, hyper paced industrialization, and ethnocide. this long term project asks: how can humans maintain grace in the face of cataclysm?
a young waorani man lays drunk from beer bought for the community by the state oil company petroamazonas
Beto plays with a balsawood plane made by his father.
Airplanes like this were used by Christian Missionaries to make first contact with the Waorani in 1956.
a drunk Waorani man sets up a roadblock, barring oil company trucks from passing late in the night
Obe washes her basket before filling it with clean yucca root
a littered bottle of purified water rests in a pool of crude oil at an oil well abandoned by Texaco
Lago Agrio, former forest territory of the Kofán people
an Ecuadorian soldier takes photos of the Waorani
Miguel (Siekopai, not Waorani) carves a canoe oar
two waorani girls seek an internet connection
