Colombia’s Healing Rituals: Herbs, Photos & Tradition | NPR

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Image 1: Carmen Fidela Mena Portrait

Image URL (Source): https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4917x7372+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6e%2Ff6%2F1c35e4d144f2b393a89b5fdd41be%2Fmargarita-portrait-1.jpg
Alt Text: “Customary healer Carmen Fidela Mena, from the community of Chachajo, Alto Baudó, Chocó. In Riverographies of Baudó, seven healers and midwives symbolically healed the wounds of their territory. Each woman healer tore an image of the place she wanted to heal and than, in the same way she has kept her community healthy, applied herbs and sutures to heal it.”
Caption: “Traditional Healer Carmen fidela Mena, From The Community of Chachajo, Alto baudó, Chocó.”
Credit: “Fernanda Pineda/MSF”

Image 2: Carmen Fidela Mena Stitching

Image URL (Source): https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/7206x4806+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5d%2Feb%2F4931a7964897bd3f92693449de88%2Fstitching-4.jpg
Alt Text: “"Many years ago a doctor from Médecins Sans Frontières taught me how to suture. Sometimes there are no implements, and we have had to do it with dental floss. Chachajo is sick with fears. I am sure of that,because I,myself,live with that sickness," testimony of Carmen Fidela Mena.”
Caption: “Carmen Fidela Mena, a healer and midwife, sews up a photo as a symbolic way of healing the community’s suffering.”
Credit: “Fernanda Pineda/MSF”

Key Observations:

Responsive Images: The element with tags indicates that these images are designed to be responsive,loading different sizes based on the screen width. The srcset attribute provides a list of image URLs with corresponding widths.
WebP Support: The tag suggests that the website is using WebP images for better compression and performance when supported by the browser.
Lazy Loading: The loading="lazy" attribute on the tag enables lazy loading, which improves page load time by only loading images when they are near the viewport.
alt text: The alt text is descriptive and important for accessibility and SEO. It provides context about the image if it cannot be displayed.
Captions and Credits: The captions provide additional information about the image, and the credits attribute the image to the photographer/organization.
Brightspot CDN: The URLs indicate that the images are hosted on NPR’s Brightspot CDN (Content Delivery Network).
* MSF: The credit “Fernanda Pineda/MSF” indicates that the photographer is associated with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

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