Native communities show their culture through photography

The daily life of the Kigkis native communities, in Amazonas, and Nueva Musa Candashi, in Loreto, were shown to the outside world thanks to a photography workshop in which more than 100 natives participated, who - through the images - showed their valuable ancestral culture.

And so, photography became the best tool, both social and cultural, to show the daily life of the native Amazon communities, including their customs and traditions.

The exhibition, sponsored and promoted by PETROPERU, was under the care of the renowned photographer Andrés Longhi and the "Ojos Propios" Association. We sought to visualize with images the culture of the Awajún indigenous people, and so to strengthen their roots.

This way, based on its principles of cultural revalorization, PETROPERU sought to perpetuate the daily events of our brothers from the Amazon, highlighting the importance of these people, who possess an immense ancestral knowledge on the management of forests.

The "Ojos Propios" Association provided cameras and training in photographic art techniques to the 111 inhabitants, 59 of them belonging to the Kigkis community and 52 of Musa Candashi.

Thus, the oil company reiterates its absolute respect for our cultures and participates directly in the social programs it implements, thus strengthening the community relationship with its stakeholders.

It should be noted that the community of Kigkis is located at the mouth of the stream of the same name, on the Alto Nieva, in the province of Condorcanqui, Amazonas. In the meantime, the Nueva Musa Candashi community is in the basins of the Sicuanga and Pushaga rivers, tributaries of the Morona River.