You’ve arrived at the meeting place of image and prayer,

where the lens becomes an altar and each frame a blessing.

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I am Daniela Miranda | Antüpewma Rülkelme Mella

Close-up black and white photo of a woman with closed eyes, wind-blown hair, and wearing a scarf, outdoors in bright sunlight.

Photographer, ceremonialist, and storyteller of Mapuche descent.
My practice bridges the seen and unseen—where image becomes ritual, and every act of creation becomes a prayer. I walk with the memory of the ancestors, weaving light, movement, and ceremony as living languages of remembrance. Through photography as medicina, I invite others to meet themselves anew—to return to the parts that were never lost, only waiting to be witnessed.

Rooted in Indigenous epistemologies and guided by a deep ethics of reciprocity, my work explores photography as ceremony—an embodied dialogue between the visible and the spiritual. The lens becomes an altar, light a form of prayer, and storytelling an act of repair. My images are not documents but offerings: spaces of witness where beauty is not constructed but remembered, and the body becomes an archive of memory and renewal.

Situated at the intersection of ritual practice and fine art, my work invites a collective remembering—of land, lineage, and belonging. Each photograph is a threshold, a gesture of return to the sacred relationship between humans and the living world. This is how I honor lineage: by tending the spaces between worlds, where healing and art become one.

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Ways to Walk With Me

There are two doors you may enter:

> Cacao Ceremonies + Rituals → intimate gatherings, cacao ceremonies, and sacred rituals that open the heart and root you in the wisdom of the Earth.

> Museum + Gallery → large-scale storytelling projects, fine art photography, and exhibitions that preserve ancestral memory and invite collective witness.

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