The native community of San Francisco, located along the banks of the Ucayali River, is one of the main cultural centers of the Shipibo Konibo people, guardians of a tradition that weaves together life, nature, and spirituality into a single fabric.

For generations, the Shipibo have developed a deep knowledge of natural medicine and the symbolic power of plants such as ayahuasca. Their healing practices, chants, and visual patterns express a worldview in which the body, the spirit, and the forest exist as an inseparable unity.

This photographic series documents the everyday life and spaces of the community, where medicine is not understood as an isolated act, but as a form of balance with the environment. Through portraits, gestures, and landscapes, the work seeks to acknowledge the dignity and continuity of an ancestral knowledge still passed down from generation to generation.

Rather than depicting a ritual, these images stand as a testimony to the bond between culture and territory, a living relationship that endures over time and reaffirms the Amazonian identity of Peru.