Mamas is an ongoing project in which Kichwa mothers sustain life using what they inherited from their mothers and grandmothers: the use of medicinal plants, cleansing rituals, midwifery, and the concept of health as a balance between body, spirit, and nature.
El Coloso se derrite /( in progress)
Desde las alturas de los Andes, donde el viento canta, y la nieve danza, aquí está el volcán Cotopaxi que resguarda la memoria del tiempo, se alza como un testigo silencioso del vínculo entre el agua y la vida. Su glaciar, que nace a 4.900 metros y se extiende hasta los 5.897, es una reserva vital que durante siglos ha alimentado los ríos de la región, sosteniendo ecosistemas frágiles y comunidades enteras.
Consciente / Conscious in progress
My ongoing project delves into the relationship between humans and the environment, exploring interconnection and harmony, with a specific focus on mental health. Socially, mental health access is a deemed privilege and remains a taboo, while respect for nature faces threats from the mercantile machinery—named mining, oil exploitation, and other extractive activities—that ravages indiscriminately.
The Nenkepare community, composed of Waorani and also part of Yasuní, represents a vivid example of how decisions regarding oil exploitation can negatively affect the life, childhood, home, and culture of Amazonian indigenous populations.
A lo largo de los años, el barrio ha experimentado mejoras en su aspecto físico, pero ha mantenido su esencia como una comunidad residencial con pequeños comercios y artesanos locales.
Estos cambios han atraído a nuevos residentes con gustos y preferencias diferentes en términos de alimentación y decoración, así como un nivel educativo más alto. Esta nueva clase creativa, compuesta por artistas, músicos e intelectuales, ha llevado a que los servicios del barrio se dirijan hacia ellos y hacia los turistas que visitan la zona. Sin embargo, esto ha dejado a los ancianos sin sentirse identificados con estos espacios, excluyéndolos de las actividades y servicios ofrecidos.
Menstruating is the only non-violent blood a person produces, as part of their biological process.
It is necessary to know your body, it is essential and logical to be friends with your menstruation without being ashamed, and it is necessary to live with conscious menstruation.
The intention of this series is to show people as sensitive beings. The impulse people have to express their freedom and emotions, I somehow rescue from some of my character’s mental and emotional connections through self-portraiture.
Un viaje al interior / An inward journey
I was born in Ecuador in a small town in the center of the country, I lived there until I was about 11 years old.
This happened in a house full of people, spaces full of flowers with light; smells of life; they are part of my identity and this house has a great emotional part of me, of my being. It is a series in which I represent what this magical place means to me and my experience with that house. The same meeting with the space and with myself.
A photographic series where you find voices, faces, spaces around the world, in a virtual journey.
The Pandemic invaded the whole world, but each person has the own way to live it and feel coronavirus, of expressing their inner and outer self, in the different corners of the planet.
Verónica Lombeida
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Ecuador
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