Between the Jungle and the City
Peru
Karoly, Christy and Tony are three teenagers from the indigenous Shipibo community Cantagallo, in Lima, Peru. Together they worked on videos about their lives, focusing on their families, culture, and community. They worked as a collective to represent their community in sounds and images—to emphasize the elements that unite its inhabitants and bind their stories together. Each had a turn both behind and in front of the camera. The particularities of their stories—and the multiplicity of realities in Cantagallo—shine through in each of their distinctive approaches. In his video, Tony tells a bit of his story, including his family’s migration from the Amazon to Lima, and explores the differences between the jungle and the city.