Title/Reference:
Portrait of Carlos Marcelo.
Author: G. Arboleda
Image No.: 228
Code No.: D03VII24-I-00969
Approx. shoot date:
July 24, 2003
Date uploaded:
March 12, 2005
Orig. File Size: 14.4 MB
Original Media: Digital
Filed under:
People Elders Men Showroom Digital 10-20 MB 2003 Ecuador Arboleda, G. Projects Secoya
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Place |
Ecuador – Upper Amazon - Sucumbíos – In a canoe between Siehuaya and Secoya Remolino.
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Description |
Portrait of Carlos Marcelo in the canoe to Siehuaya. After we paid him for the pictures he asked us to wait; he went to his house, where he picked up an empty 40-pound gas container. Then he asked if we could take him with us in our way back to Chiritza, and drop him off at a bodega where he would buy some cooking gas.
It moves me to think about the Secoyas' economic struggle; how it is not rare for them just to run out of fuel and have hard times to cook. It is a very paradoxical situation, since they live at a walking distance of an oil exploitation site, which is, by the way, located on their own land.
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