Alaxa Pacha

Alaxa Pacha, an Aymara term meaning “the world above,” is a photographic project that explores the visible and invisible dimensions of Andean cosmology. Within this symbolic universe, the sky is not merely a physical space but a spiritual territory inhabited by forces that shape life, time, and memory. The images in this series emerge from the intersection of landscape, ritual, and human presence in the Peruvian Altiplano. Rather than documenting cultural practices, the project seeks to evoke states of transition — moments in which the earthly and the sacred appear to converge. Mountains become living bodies, mist turns into a threshold, and light acts as a signal; each element participates in a network of meanings inherited and continually reimagined by Andean communities. Far from an ethnographic gaze, Alaxa Pacha proposes a contemplative experience in which photography functions as a space of spiritual resonance. Through dense atmospheres, visual silences, and compositions that verge on the oneiric, the series reflects on alternative ways of understanding the world — ways in which nature and humanity do not stand in opposition but coexist through reciprocity. In a contemporary context marked by acceleration and disconnection from the natural environment, this work raises an essential question: what can ancestral knowledge still teach us about our relationship with the unseen? Alaxa Pacha does not attempt to explain the mystery; it inhabits it.