one of the things I like to do I’m in
the Amazon it’s just bustling myths I
don’t want all this nonsense this a
romantic image we have of indigenous
people they’re just people
yeah reason I like these pictures
because we’ll you know we always go and
look at these places to see how
different we are and what do gets me
about these those two pictures actually
what roses similar we are you know my
kids do stuff like this mine and ice hut
is in the peruvian amazon okay it’s like
the far west side of the amazon right at
the bottom of of the andes as national
parks go it’s pretty big at 17,000
square kilometers it’s twice the size of
Yellowstone National Park what makes
money special is it has the highest
diversity of life of anywhere in the
world you’re dealing with a place with
thirteen hundred and seven known species
of butterfly that’s six percent of the
world’s total it has 15 species of
monkey ten percent of all the bird
species in the world live in Maya
National Park there’s more tree species
and a single hectare than the whole of
North America you know this is it’s just
nuts the diversity in it there’s an
undescribed species of poison dart frog
it’s called sp3 it hasn’t got a name yet
so you just been discovered a friend of
mine to prove in herpetologist found it
who knows how many species Manny’s got
more reptiles and amphibians and
anywhere else in the world
there’s a giant otter a six-foot long
the eight pounds of fish a day eight
piranhas you know I’m badass have you
got to beat her on IV in front so I
doesn’t mean I’m badass cuz I think
prawns but they are now but people say
to me I know I don’t want to go to the
rainforest and scared of snakes night
fighting flies yeah and I always lied to
them so you don’t need to be and you do
these things scare the crap out of me
this is a two stripe forest pit viper
it’s perfectly camouflage as you can see
from the color of the background it’s
highly hemotoxic inside too toxic and a
hangs around around neck height no have
you got to worry about and I
photographed this snake I’ve been
walking within 18 inches of that snake
for about half an hour setting a camera
trap up backwards and forwards but and
my friend Lex is suddenly freaked and
just shouted and they call them Laura
machaca that’s a local name right in our
hearts we’re going crazy because we’ve
just been and then so every time we went
near it would contract ready to strike
and it can almost strike its body length
yeah guy thing gets in than that you’re
gonna be dead in 25 minutes it is called
a of the rock this is a super cool
/ I love these birds if you can’t work
it out you can jailer you can just see
the bottom of its beat poking out yeah
maybe not okay so these this so that so
one of the reasons manu is so diverse is
a bit of a cheat because it actually
starts at high altitude so the park
starts right up in the end these and it
goes right down to load and rainforest
and this and in that process it goes
through cloud forest which is really
diverse and you know one of the least
studied regions of the tropics actually
this is an ocelot one of seven species
of cat in marnie I think I took nine
camera traps for three months and got
one photo
I’m clearly not doing very well anyway
so these are I guess what you imagine
when you think of people of the forest
these are I guess what slightly miss
correctly termed uncontacted mash capiro
indians uncontacted in the sense that
they have almost no contact with modern
Western civilization I took this image
traveling up through the southern
southern part of mining on a boat one
day and a group of these women were
washing a baby in the river and most of
them vanished into the forest and I you
know we you’re not allowed to stop so we
carried the boat on you’re not allowed
to communicate with them you know
certainly not allowed to go and talk to
them or or you know get close to them
because we could very easily give them
flu virus and they could wipe out an
entire population this particular group
are one of they think around 800
uncontacted people living in Manya at
the moment they’ve been more visible in
since about 2011 coming out into the you
know an area on the southern end of Manu
they’ve killed two people so it’s
there’s a slow process to come into
contact with them last summer I went
into Manu to shoot a story for the
magazine I went to live with a magic
younger people and they’re the most sort
of numerous of the indigenous people
that live in money these people are
hunter-gatherers still I took this photo
from a plane this is what you call a
first contact heart these people are
living in the early stages of contact
with the outside world so they’re very
remote I think this was 23 miles by
plane from the nearest village these
people are they’re really going to only
see people from that village maybe once
a year maybe do a bit of trading and
then I went to stay in a very remote
community in the middle of mining which
no one’s allowed in to really have to
get special permissions I met this
family these people were about two weeks
in contact they come down from the
headwaters of the marnie River and these
people have always just lived very
isolated in a tiny community they’d
never been to the big community village
called yung Roboto where I was this was
their first trip there so the villages
they you know refer to them as the
uncontacted people and they’d come there
and they’d get machetes
you know stoned out through metal tools
which should join the most important
thing in the world to them so it was
really interesting meeting them and
photographing them and as a photographer
you want to go and hang out and shoot
people as they are and shoot them
relaxing and you know really you don’t
you want to be invisible but with these
guys that was impossible I said to them
have you ever seen a white guy before
they said we’ve never seen a non-magic
anger Indian before they didn’t change
their expression at all for the entire
time I was there they just stared at me
they’re totally underwhelmed by the
entire experience as well as I think not
is amazing he isn’t Wow
so I posed them you know I arranged them
and trying and photographing because all
I could do with them but I kind of liked
the portraits through again and I lived
in the community one of the things I
like to do I mean in the Amazon it’s
just bust all the myths I don’t want all
this nonsense this a romantic image we
have of indigenous people they’re just
people and they their culture is
fascinating and everything else but they
are just people and we tend to we tend
to over blow that a bit I went on the
school swimming lesson and the teacher
to all the cliff she put like 30 kids in
a boat she directed everyone with this
enormous carving knife she crossed the
river got out of the boat and then just
buggered off into the forest on her own
to cut guavas or something and all the
kids just went swimming I was the
swimming lesson I thought this is the
way to live isn’t it
this is Yoanna every day she would walk
past our camp with her Saddleback
tamarin which is a gremlin on her head
and that was her toy and she take it
swimming it it just absolutely hated
water it was just this protracted awful
experience for it going in the water
and all it wants to do is get into a
head so I said can I take your picture
she won she was right you know whatever
so for three days I just I took every
day but yoni went swimming take this
picture of her with this thing on her
head this is eventually one hand you
know and her story is very sad I know
and bring it down on it but I’ll tell
you her story after this picture was
taken the monkey died on a pot of
boiling water fell on it her mum died in
childbirth she now wanders around with
her sister who’s called Grace Kelly no
idea why and she’s you can see in this
picture she’s got so many headlight so
she shaved all their head off so just
you know just in a few months and so to
this picture her entire life and world
is completely changed ah how I’d
photograph the education system you know
this is a story about how indigenous
group of people live in a national park
whether they have health care and
education everything they should have so
I wanted to photograph that and this
photo and this picture as well yeah
reason I like these pictures because
we’ll you know we was going to look at
these places to see how different we are
and what they gets me about these those
two pictures actually what Rosa has
similar we are you know my kids do stuff
like this this is the wisest man I’ve
ever met
he’s called Don Alberto’s a shaming and
he blew my head off with the most
powerful hallucinogen known to man which
is probably why I’m draining so much in
that fish why didn’t have any form of
spiritual connection with the rainforest
because I have a spiritual connection
with anything I am the least spiritual
person in world so us all right I’ll be
open-minded
blow my head off let’s see where we go
over this and he did
according to Western science ayahuasca
activates parahippocampal areas of the
brain that are involved in processing
emotion and memory Don Alberto describes
how forest spirits will talk to Charlie
in a dream and show him his true path
snakes wasps spiders crocodiles there
were a lot of animals in the divisions
but the only ones giving me messages
were actually the rainforest animals
whatever he did it worked it really
worked well I want to do go on a journey
to discover more about the forest and it
irritatingly was about me
the understanding of myself and being
given this understanding by the
creatures of the forest was the most
enlightening and profound experience
I’ve ever had it absolutely blew me away
so then yeah a few years later do I feel
the same no I just feel more confused
about spirituality than I was before but
I did see this the forest spirits in my
in my visions and the I was out for
three hours I saw a world made of toffee
Lego at one point I saw all kinds of
stuff at a whole world of nice frogs on
that side and nasty frogs on that side I
was kind of rolling but and then I was
they were filming me as you saw and
everything when they talked to me what
because you’re sort of you you have a
conscious level as well so talking and I
was watching these blue words coming out
of my mouth and going into the lens and
at one point I was flying over the
Shetland Islands looking down on it it
was it was crazy
one thing about ayahuasca that drug I’ve
got to tell you right it’s made out of a
vine they pound this vine and they mix
it with a leaf right if you just treated
it and you boil it for like a day this
pounded vine and if you drink it does
nothing you have to mix it with a
specific species of leaf in order for
your body it’s really metabolizing for
it to do its thing well that’s great the
17,000 species of wooded plant there how
did they figure that out that always
just blows my mind how did they figure
town that up boil it for a day yeah they
have Jamie Oliver or the Barefoot
Contessa do they put those leaves in it
mix-ups gonna blow your head off mind
the Amazon it’s just bustling myths I
don’t want all this nonsense this a
romantic image we have of indigenous
people they’re just people
yeah reason I like these pictures
because we’ll you know we always go and
look at these places to see how
different we are and what do gets me
about these those two pictures actually
what roses similar we are you know my
kids do stuff like this mine and ice hut
is in the peruvian amazon okay it’s like
the far west side of the amazon right at
the bottom of of the andes as national
parks go it’s pretty big at 17,000
square kilometers it’s twice the size of
Yellowstone National Park what makes
money special is it has the highest
diversity of life of anywhere in the
world you’re dealing with a place with
thirteen hundred and seven known species
of butterfly that’s six percent of the
world’s total it has 15 species of
monkey ten percent of all the bird
species in the world live in Maya
National Park there’s more tree species
and a single hectare than the whole of
North America you know this is it’s just
nuts the diversity in it there’s an
undescribed species of poison dart frog
it’s called sp3 it hasn’t got a name yet
so you just been discovered a friend of
mine to prove in herpetologist found it
who knows how many species Manny’s got
more reptiles and amphibians and
anywhere else in the world
there’s a giant otter a six-foot long
the eight pounds of fish a day eight
piranhas you know I’m badass have you
got to beat her on IV in front so I
doesn’t mean I’m badass cuz I think
prawns but they are now but people say
to me I know I don’t want to go to the
rainforest and scared of snakes night
fighting flies yeah and I always lied to
them so you don’t need to be and you do
these things scare the crap out of me
this is a two stripe forest pit viper
it’s perfectly camouflage as you can see
from the color of the background it’s
highly hemotoxic inside too toxic and a
hangs around around neck height no have
you got to worry about and I
photographed this snake I’ve been
walking within 18 inches of that snake
for about half an hour setting a camera
trap up backwards and forwards but and
my friend Lex is suddenly freaked and
just shouted and they call them Laura
machaca that’s a local name right in our
hearts we’re going crazy because we’ve
just been and then so every time we went
near it would contract ready to strike
and it can almost strike its body length
yeah guy thing gets in than that you’re
gonna be dead in 25 minutes it is called
a of the rock this is a super cool
/ I love these birds if you can’t work
it out you can jailer you can just see
the bottom of its beat poking out yeah
maybe not okay so these this so that so
one of the reasons manu is so diverse is
a bit of a cheat because it actually
starts at high altitude so the park
starts right up in the end these and it
goes right down to load and rainforest
and this and in that process it goes
through cloud forest which is really
diverse and you know one of the least
studied regions of the tropics actually
this is an ocelot one of seven species
of cat in marnie I think I took nine
camera traps for three months and got
one photo
I’m clearly not doing very well anyway
so these are I guess what you imagine
when you think of people of the forest
these are I guess what slightly miss
correctly termed uncontacted mash capiro
indians uncontacted in the sense that
they have almost no contact with modern
Western civilization I took this image
traveling up through the southern
southern part of mining on a boat one
day and a group of these women were
washing a baby in the river and most of
them vanished into the forest and I you
know we you’re not allowed to stop so we
carried the boat on you’re not allowed
to communicate with them you know
certainly not allowed to go and talk to
them or or you know get close to them
because we could very easily give them
flu virus and they could wipe out an
entire population this particular group
are one of they think around 800
uncontacted people living in Manya at
the moment they’ve been more visible in
since about 2011 coming out into the you
know an area on the southern end of Manu
they’ve killed two people so it’s
there’s a slow process to come into
contact with them last summer I went
into Manu to shoot a story for the
magazine I went to live with a magic
younger people and they’re the most sort
of numerous of the indigenous people
that live in money these people are
hunter-gatherers still I took this photo
from a plane this is what you call a
first contact heart these people are
living in the early stages of contact
with the outside world so they’re very
remote I think this was 23 miles by
plane from the nearest village these
people are they’re really going to only
see people from that village maybe once
a year maybe do a bit of trading and
then I went to stay in a very remote
community in the middle of mining which
no one’s allowed in to really have to
get special permissions I met this
family these people were about two weeks
in contact they come down from the
headwaters of the marnie River and these
people have always just lived very
isolated in a tiny community they’d
never been to the big community village
called yung Roboto where I was this was
their first trip there so the villages
they you know refer to them as the
uncontacted people and they’d come there
and they’d get machetes
you know stoned out through metal tools
which should join the most important
thing in the world to them so it was
really interesting meeting them and
photographing them and as a photographer
you want to go and hang out and shoot
people as they are and shoot them
relaxing and you know really you don’t
you want to be invisible but with these
guys that was impossible I said to them
have you ever seen a white guy before
they said we’ve never seen a non-magic
anger Indian before they didn’t change
their expression at all for the entire
time I was there they just stared at me
they’re totally underwhelmed by the
entire experience as well as I think not
is amazing he isn’t Wow
so I posed them you know I arranged them
and trying and photographing because all
I could do with them but I kind of liked
the portraits through again and I lived
in the community one of the things I
like to do I mean in the Amazon it’s
just bust all the myths I don’t want all
this nonsense this a romantic image we
have of indigenous people they’re just
people and they their culture is
fascinating and everything else but they
are just people and we tend to we tend
to over blow that a bit I went on the
school swimming lesson and the teacher
to all the cliff she put like 30 kids in
a boat she directed everyone with this
enormous carving knife she crossed the
river got out of the boat and then just
buggered off into the forest on her own
to cut guavas or something and all the
kids just went swimming I was the
swimming lesson I thought this is the
way to live isn’t it
this is Yoanna every day she would walk
past our camp with her Saddleback
tamarin which is a gremlin on her head
and that was her toy and she take it
swimming it it just absolutely hated
water it was just this protracted awful
experience for it going in the water
and all it wants to do is get into a
head so I said can I take your picture
she won she was right you know whatever
so for three days I just I took every
day but yoni went swimming take this
picture of her with this thing on her
head this is eventually one hand you
know and her story is very sad I know
and bring it down on it but I’ll tell
you her story after this picture was
taken the monkey died on a pot of
boiling water fell on it her mum died in
childbirth she now wanders around with
her sister who’s called Grace Kelly no
idea why and she’s you can see in this
picture she’s got so many headlight so
she shaved all their head off so just
you know just in a few months and so to
this picture her entire life and world
is completely changed ah how I’d
photograph the education system you know
this is a story about how indigenous
group of people live in a national park
whether they have health care and
education everything they should have so
I wanted to photograph that and this
photo and this picture as well yeah
reason I like these pictures because
we’ll you know we was going to look at
these places to see how different we are
and what they gets me about these those
two pictures actually what Rosa has
similar we are you know my kids do stuff
like this this is the wisest man I’ve
ever met
he’s called Don Alberto’s a shaming and
he blew my head off with the most
powerful hallucinogen known to man which
is probably why I’m draining so much in
that fish why didn’t have any form of
spiritual connection with the rainforest
because I have a spiritual connection
with anything I am the least spiritual
person in world so us all right I’ll be
open-minded
blow my head off let’s see where we go
over this and he did
according to Western science ayahuasca
activates parahippocampal areas of the
brain that are involved in processing
emotion and memory Don Alberto describes
how forest spirits will talk to Charlie
in a dream and show him his true path
snakes wasps spiders crocodiles there
were a lot of animals in the divisions
but the only ones giving me messages
were actually the rainforest animals
whatever he did it worked it really
worked well I want to do go on a journey
to discover more about the forest and it
irritatingly was about me
the understanding of myself and being
given this understanding by the
creatures of the forest was the most
enlightening and profound experience
I’ve ever had it absolutely blew me away
so then yeah a few years later do I feel
the same no I just feel more confused
about spirituality than I was before but
I did see this the forest spirits in my
in my visions and the I was out for
three hours I saw a world made of toffee
Lego at one point I saw all kinds of
stuff at a whole world of nice frogs on
that side and nasty frogs on that side I
was kind of rolling but and then I was
they were filming me as you saw and
everything when they talked to me what
because you’re sort of you you have a
conscious level as well so talking and I
was watching these blue words coming out
of my mouth and going into the lens and
at one point I was flying over the
Shetland Islands looking down on it it
was it was crazy
one thing about ayahuasca that drug I’ve
got to tell you right it’s made out of a
vine they pound this vine and they mix
it with a leaf right if you just treated
it and you boil it for like a day this
pounded vine and if you drink it does
nothing you have to mix it with a
specific species of leaf in order for
your body it’s really metabolizing for
it to do its thing well that’s great the
17,000 species of wooded plant there how
did they figure that out that always
just blows my mind how did they figure
town that up boil it for a day yeah they
have Jamie Oliver or the Barefoot
Contessa do they put those leaves in it
mix-ups gonna blow your head off mind
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