A visual essay by Fernando Souza
Broadband Jungle
Amazonas, Colombia
A vision by Fernando Souza
Glaciers and deserts tangled up with the loudest music and broadband jungle life. My scale of things didn’t work in Colombia. The river feels like a sea. The jungle looks like a single row of trees under towering skies. Life gets its glasses fogged up by uncut nature and spawns magical realism. Macondo is more real than you thought. You’re told stories of eagles stealing chicks and hens instantly learning to fly to chase after them, “esa era mucha gallina”. Or how a dog cured its owner of a high fever by sleeping on her bed and dying for her. “You should always keep an animal at home to take away your misfortunes”. You believe it.
Photography & words by Fernando Souza
Edited by Bis Turnor
Traveller/s
Fernando Souza
Screenwriter, Photographer, Traveler
Fernando studied film and was screenwriter for Spanish TV. But he quit to hitchhike around the world. He only made it to Taiwan (got his jaw broken in Russia, etc.). He is interested in alternative ways of travelling, our everyday struggles and anything that strays from the center. He has been published in VICE, has made films for cargo boat companies and fashion brands and is finishing a documentary about a highway close to his home.
@wond_rlust
