INTIMATE LANDSCAPES — Colombia’s Upper Amazon River: Leticia to Puerto Nariño and Lake Tarapoto

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I’d dreamed of applying my lifelong lessons pursuing Eliot Porter’s Intimate Landscape vision to Colombia’s Upper Amazon River for more than a half century when I finally made the opportunity in the summer 2024.

As chronicled elsewhere, I purchased a collection of Amazon Indian basketry in San Jacinto, Colombia, in 1976 but never achieved my goal of flying to Leticia, the nation’s only port on the Amazon, which I assumed was the basket’s source.

Upon learning my Colombian mother-in-residence during my time there was still alive at 87, I  led my family to Barranquilla to see Teresa and then on to San Martin de Amacayacu some 40 miles up the Amazon River from Leticia for those long-coveted intimate Amazon-scapes.

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PROJECT: Intimate Landscapes by Steven Higgs

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