iDiaspora Photo Contest 2022 - Gallery

Gabriel Palacios
Woman Medicine by: Gabriel Palacios

Country of Origin: Argentina
Country of Residence: Argentina

Sacha is a medicine woman, caretaker of the Pachamama, healer through her words, her food, her plants, her wisdom. From the outskirts of Potosi (Bolivia), she traveled to various cities with the aim of transmitting her knowledge, and in the cities, she learned about discrimination, ignorance and little respect for the mother-earth, in a patriarchal and aporophobic system that denies the deep wisdom that Sacha Sawila, and other migrants, carry with them.

  • Title
    Sacha medicine
    Brief Introduction
    Sacha and Artemisia, one of her medicinal plants in the surroundings of the lagoon she chose as her ceremonial place.
    Photo location
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Title
    Sacha and the diaspora
    Brief Introduction
    Sacha celebrates a ceremony during the closing of the International Book Fair in Buenos Aires sharing coca leaves with his fellow countrymen presenting his book. The use of coca leaves is ancestral and is part of the indigenous cultural heritage.
    Photo location
    Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Title
    Sacha and its place of ceremony
    Brief Introduction
    In the suburbs of the city where she resides, Sacha found and created a space to celebrate her ancestral ceremonies and connect with Pachamama and her ancestry.
    Photo location
    Buenos Aires, Argentina