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Photographed by your own children
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| In his house of New Jersey, Amy Coplan shows photos taken children of the Amazon tribe cobed, in Peru. She plans to deliver some of these images to the National museum of the Institute Smithsonian on the American Indians in Washington, DC. photos: Mel Evans / AP |
Samantha Henry
AP
Amy Coplan, teacher of music in Jersey City, traveled to the forest of the Amazon with the hope to see exotic animals. What it discovered there upset it much more: children.
They belong to the tribe of the cobed, through which they live in the Peruvian village of St Martin of Tipishca visited by the teacher in the National Reservation Pacaya Samiria. Moved by his artistic instinct, he decided that it could help to that the children were documenting their own world.
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| In one of the photos, a girl receives his younger sister while a pajarillo supports in a hand. photos: Courteousness of Amy Coplan / AP |
Coplan distributed digital cameras to the children, of between 12 and 16 years, which knowledge up to this moment was limiting itself to the works of hunt, fishing and others of help for the subsistence of the community. Coplan taught to the children how to use the technology of the XXIst century. And he surprised the rapid thing that they acquired taste for the photo and the incredible images that they took.
His photos capture moments of the familiar life in the Amazon, from the refreshing perspective of a child. A girl took the picture of his 4-year-old younger sister, who looks straight at the lens, with an elevated eyebrow, while a pajarillo supports in a hand.
There are children's images that bathe in a river to the evening, of a tree from whose branches hang the children's legs that rose to gather fruits, and several photos of other children who work loading firewood, rowing in canoes or helping to that the adults skin animals or prepare food.
Coplan hopes that his project and a small foundation that he thinks about how to create, called Children of the Amazonia, should attract attention. He wants that the foundation buys medicines, school articles and finances the education of these children.
In his most recent trip, in August, Coplan began to be employed at the creation of a small museum in the village, where the photos of the children can be exhibited. It has discussed also the possibility of giving some photos to the National museum of the Institute Smithsonian on the American Indians in Washington, DC. A spokeswoman of the museum announced that a decision is not taken yet on this matter.
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