The heron of Calanoa, Amazonas

Mural by the Colombian artist Diego Samper and his wife Marlene.
Mural by the Colombian artist Diego Samper and his wife Marlene.

At the heart of the Colombian Amazon, photographer Louis Vest captured this striking image of a girl from the Tikuna indigenous tribe looking from the entrance of her home in the riverine community of Calanoa, and in the gaze of a heron painted by the Colombian author and ethnographer Diego Samper and his wife Marlene.