The Summits of the Americas Secretariat, in collaboration with the Chair of the IX Summit Process and the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States launched the Photography Contest with the objective of artistically portraying realities, challenges and/or solutions in the Hemisphere related to the five thematic pillars of the IX Summit of the Americas.
Description:"Two wheels for change": Educating by example is the best way to promote a good practice and demonstrate that anything is possible. The active participation of women and girls in the use of non-motorized vehicles to adapt and mitigate climate change that affects everyone is a common practice in the Ande, but it needs a greater impetus to further promote this practice. The use of non-motorized and eco-sustainable vehicles in the communities and Indigenous peoples of the Collao highlands (Peru) is a good alternative to travel while protecting the environment. In the image we can see the sisters Aida and Dominga Miranda Puma from the rural community of Jupari, district of Nicasio, province of Lampa, Puno region, traveling on the Inca Trail at an altitude of more than 3880 m.a.s.l.
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Description: Due to digitalization, new generations are influenced by new technologies. Often this influence is a trigger in the behavior of children. On the other hand, this photograph also represents how the traditional media are losing credibility and interest for the new generations. Likewise, children have lost interest in outdoor activities due to the freedom given to them when using electronic equipment. All this within a digital transformation that increasingly takes over reality.
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Description: The woman in the picture is an elder woman who like many older persons, still must walk the streets looking for something to live on, corruption has limited much of the management portion, and one of them is our elders. She appears in the photo with a word that says PEACE. However, there is no peace without justice, we seek a true democracy where everyone can access basic rights.
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Description: "Technology brings us closer to people at a distance, but distances us when we are close", a habit that unfortunately is being lost is to converse with those who are next to us, creating bonds of "real" communication often built bonds of friendship over time, unlike the use of social media that are transforming communication, especially verbal and gestural expression.
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Description: Within my community it is important to hold the hand of ancestral knowledge, as well as midwives and wise men, who are responsible for providing their knowledge to sustain in one way or another the balance in the universe, for us it is a joy to be able to transmit and teach our ancestral knowledge as health. Therefore, nowadays Western health goes hand in hand with ancestral knowledge. That is why we work as a community to get ahead by obtaining a greater number of professionals in this field.
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Description: The baton of command is a tradition of the Indigenous normative systems; it symbolizes the authority that the people grant to a person, the delivery of power, respect, wisdom, knowledge to govern a community for a certain period of time, the delivery is made in a solemn act convened by the City Council of San Luis Acatlan, Guerrero.
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Description: Together with the blue sky, the sun, which in itself draws shadows on the salty plain, changes the landscape of the large salt flats at times. A salt flat in the province of Jujuy located in the northwest of Argentina at 3350snm. It is a contradictory landscape, on the one hand, extremely inhospitable, but at the same time essential for life, configured by that indispensable element for every living organism as is the salt. The scene merges and triggers the reflection of what is the future for the new generations. In a world that needs to take care of the environment and our natural resources to leave them a territory of opportunities and above all the beginning of a childhood with innocence, candor, and dreams. Suddenly, a child appears with his ball looking for a place to kick it. The landscape takes the shape of a soccer stadium, without an audience, but no matter .... his desire to play and make little games assemble in his imagination that which is not there. The lawn becomes a hexagonal grid that makes the horizontal support for the game. The shadow accompanies the movement of the ball while the mountains form the distant stands of that immense blue stadium that exalts it. All you must do is play; it doesn't matter where or with whom. When we are children, fantasy tingles in our minds.
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Description: A healthy childhood is the foundation for a prosperous future.
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Description: “Indigenous people- a greener future". It has been proven, time and time again, that Indigenous people are the best keepers of mother nature. However, the "development" of countries has seemed to have taken priority over our environment. If only governments and other entities respect our land rights, respect us as Indigenous people and grant legal land titles to us, we can guarantee the environment will be protected for time immemorial as we have been doing for years. Forests still stand in Guyana because of Indigenous people, as is also seen around the world. Indigenous people can teach others so much about conservation, living in harmony with nature, and all the other titles wan can think of. The Indigenous boy and his parrot in this picture show how we live in harmony with our environment, how we do not destroy it, but are dancing together as our ancestors have done. COVID-19 has taken away some of our elders, but we will carry on with our traditions which involve caring for the environment.
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Description: In this photo, we want to evoke the feeling, from an artistic and peaceful scenario, of great concern and sadness for the different situations of the people who cry out for a transformation due to the decisions of a country, which affect the stability, harmony, and tranquility of the community.
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Description: "The Silent Cry of the Sea" is a photo thought from the importance of raising awareness of the ocean care, as it is currently alarming how microplastics have expanded and are found in fish, which is a situation that not only puts human life at risk but also marine life, forgetting that without the ocean we would not exist. According to UN data, it is estimated that by 2050, there will be more plastics in the oceans than fish.
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Description: "Technology brings us closer to people at a distance, but distances us when we are close", a habit that unfortunately is being lost is to converse with those who are next to us, creating bonds of "real" communication often built bonds of friendship over time, unlike the use of social media that are transforming communication, especially verbal and gestural expression.
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Description: In the middle of hills full of green and purple, potatoes are grown in the month of February where the inhabitants of the Barrio Centro del Anexo de Raquina in the district of Pucara in the Province of Huancayo, celebrate the "Akshu Tahtay" which is the second potato harvest. During this custom, the women peasant with great bohemia sings loudly the anonymous traditional songs in Quechua Huanca and the elders of the area say that when they dance and sing they imitate nature, the plants, the animals. They talk and tell her if good or bad times will come. The potato will be beautiful and there will be a good harvest. This tuber is the most consumed Peruvian gastronomic and economic source with more than three thousand and so many varieties. This type of customs serves to preserve native seeds in the southern area of the Mantaro Valley.
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The warm houses project are houses in the rural high Andean areas in Peru where temperatures reach -15 degrees Celsius. This project aims to build self-sustainable houses that can generate heat through solar energy.
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Description: The women and men of the Indigenous peoples such as the Mazahuas are very important to achieve “Our Sustainable and Green Future”. Those born in these communities have an important sense of belonging to the land, so they take great care of it and achieve many sustainable processes without being aware of it, such as the use of cultivation in their milpa where everything is used and they return it to the land, they also use natural seeds selected from several years achieving a natural improvement, from it they feed and use the grass to feed their animals, which produce manure that they use to fertilize their land and thus manage to use as much as possible and return nutrients to the land.
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Description: Misak Indigenous community. Bogotá, May 30, 2021. Social mobilizations in the framework of the national strike in Colombia.
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Description: This Queen Mine in Bisbee, AZ was one of the largest copper mines in the world. Not only was the work dangerous, but the mine itself displaced an entire town. Now closed, the mine serves as a reminder of our need to find alternative methods for extraction that are more sustainable.
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Description: How technology can help Indigenous children?
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Description: "Dialogues (2022). A colloquy between absent, dumb and unequal. An essay on relationships in times of pandemic Covid-19. Social distancing, absence and silence. The silence that insists on shouting during this infinite pandemic.
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Description: Hey Human, create your future, safer, sustainable, and smoke-free, taking care of nature, without any mistreatment, in a happier world...… Is there purer gold? The sun and wind, our gifts, generate energy with silenced noises, with well-placed panels and turbines, the planet is more alive and recovered. Human leaves finite fuels behind, and welcome new styles, that bring us hope and bright tomorrows, with renewable energies, cleaner and sleeker. Humans let us raise our arms, and celebrate this new dawn, where the renewable generates the bonds for harmony, peace, and seeing life flourish.
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Description: Abortion yes! This photograph reflects the power of people who want to assert their rights. It was taken during the demonstrations for the legalization of abortion in Colombia. 2 weeks later abortion was decriminalized until week 23.
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Description: The Atlantic Ocean although well known for the annual gateway of tropical cyclones between June and November can also provide a steady wind energy to keep wind turbines moving to provide clean energy for small island states in the Caribbean. An opportunity exists to turn the geographical location of the islands into a benefit for a sustainable future through a clean energy source. The ocean also provides ample space to locate wind farms with minimal loss of use of the ocean space.
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Description: Promoting and fostering digital literacy in education. Breaking the gaps of digital divide and providing more opportunities for girls. The picture is portraying female students from different ethnicities but all wanting a brighter future through education and access to a digital device in the classroom. The picture captures the hope of a future where technology is part of education and that everyone has the opportunity to access a device and good internet connectivity to have a quality education in the digital era.
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Description: Costa Rica Central American Champion for amputee soccer.
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Description: In the framework of social mobilizations, it is where the mood of democratic governments, allow or not, the free participation in the spaces of political representation, in this case, the public space as a place where claims are presented. Bogota May 30, 2021. Misak Indigenous community.
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