A visual essay by Enrico Caputo
Amazonas
Iquitos, Peru
A vision by Enrico Caputo
I arrived in Iquitos after a four week road trip across Peru with my wife. When you land there, well, prepare to find yourself in another world. We took a boat to reach our final destination, two hours north on the Rio Amazonas. As we arrived, a group of wild boars crossed the river, chased by a few local people, machetes in hand: the hunt was successful and they carried a couple of them back into the forest.
I asked if it was possible to visit their village. It was just five minutes' walk from the river bank. There was a main road with a dozen stilt houses along its edge. It was calm, I think all the men were still out chasing their food. We were lucky enough to discover they were doing a party to crown the prettiest girl of the village in the evening, so we came back in the evening and enjoyed a sip of a gasoline-strong drink. I spent the next two days enjoying the sounds of the forest, interrupted now and then by the passage of small boats carrying goods along the river.
I asked if it was possible to visit their village. It was just five minutes' walk from the river bank. There was a main road with a dozen stilt houses along its edge. It was calm, I think all the men were still out chasing their food. We were lucky enough to discover they were doing a party to crown the prettiest girl of the village in the evening, so we came back in the evening and enjoyed a sip of a gasoline-strong drink. I spent the next two days enjoying the sounds of the forest, interrupted now and then by the passage of small boats carrying goods along the river.
Photography & Words by Enrico Caputo
Edited by Marion Garnier
Traveller/s
Enrico Caputo
Creative Director & Photographer
Enrico Caputo is a photographer, art director and entrepreneur living in Milan. In 2008 he founded CaroselloLab.com, a brand design & communication studio: this allowed him to gain an excellent multidisciplinar experience, working on campaigns, brand identities, packagings and, of course, photographs for national and international clients in the fields of food, beverages, culture, sports, beauty, music and entertainment.
In 2014 Enrico launched FoodPirate.Studio, a company focusing on commercial food photography.
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