Cumbia does not ask permission. It comes in through the neighborhood speakers, through the open bus window, through an improvised party on a street corner. It is danced on dirt patios, in community halls, in migrant clubs in Los Angeles—and while it plays, it builds something more than a dance floor: it builds belonging. That…
In Brazil, macumba has long been used as an insult—a word meant to diminish what it does not understand. Photographer Gui Christ reclaims it as an affirmation of belonging. M’Kumba is not a report about Afro-Brazilian religions; it is an act of visual restoration. Through ritual, memory, and the sacred pulse of the drum, Christ moves beyond documentation and into reclamation—transforming photography into a space where ancestral dignity is seen, embodied, and restored from within.
Interview by Pamela Cruz / Terra360 At more than 4,000 meters above sea level, in the city of El Alto, where urban growth advances at the rhythm of the cable car and geometric façades rise over the high plateau, a group of women pose in inherited polleras, urban sneakers, and sunglasses reflecting the Andean sky….