Project Detail: Soul´s purification with ayahuasca

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LuganoPhotoDays 2018



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LuganoPhotoDays



Author:

Jhonattan Sarmiento

 

Project Info

Soul´s purification with ayahuasca

The Ayahuasca is leaving the Amazon and started to travel through the Colombian cities.

Each month, Alex Tisoy, also called as "The Taita" travel around the Colombian mountain range looking for the purification of dozens of devotees who believe in the indigenous healing power. Tisoy cooked the plant like a slipslop which is drunk by the devoting people.

After drinking it, all of them attend a personal cleaning process. From children to elderly people, everyone present attends the ritual that uses harmonic instruments which try to involve them in a spiritual travel into their fears and personal purposes. There are some faithful people who smoke tobacco trying to purify their airways or to return to their normal state of consciousness and block the effects of ayahuasca

Tisoy moves his ritual elements on the people´s body and prays in Inga, his native language. As a devote, you can see the people´s faith in the "limpia" process.

This photography work has taken place in the city of Los Patios, in the state of Norte de Santander (northwest of Colombia and border with Venezuela). In fact, the photographer captured the images after his personal experience drinking the millenary concoction.

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