Where the South Breaths / Donde el Sur Respira
This is a dialogue about the geographical, historical, and emotional continuity of the Andes across Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. The project offers an interpretation woven from the light, texture, and fragility of the landscape, viewing the mountain range as a shared geological entity rather than as political borders. Rather than focusing solely on the violence of extractivism, the series observes what remains alive, the texture of the mountain, the water flowing through glaciers and into water sponges, the silence, and the power of the apus that exists beyond the machinery.
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.
Fragmento de Hogar / Fragment of Home
Fragment of Home documents internal displacement in Socio Vivienda II, one of the most marginalized neighborhoods in Guayaquil. Amid militarization, organized crime, and state violence, families are forced to fragment to survive, revealing how the home ceases to be a refuge and becomes a testimony of structural abandonment.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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