During a stay in a Mosuo village in Yunnan, I lived with a local healer and his family and followed parts of his everyday practice. I watched patients arrive, joined a mountain herb-gathering trip, listened to stories of how knowledge had been passed through his family, and observed how medicine existed alongside family life, spirituality, landscape, and trust.
The experience expanded a question that had been growing through my photography: how much of what sustains a community is invisible from the outside? It also brought my interests in culture into conversation with public health and medical anthropology, where listening to lived experience can be as important as understanding a system from a distance.
