Belen Kids, Peru

Belen Kids, Peru

In the poor outer section of Iquitos sits the low lying suburb called Belen, where huts are built with and on wood, so when the amazon floods for 6 months of the year, they float and not drown. Rotting wooden planks and canoes are the only method of navigating in this poverty struck area of the...

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Departing Pucallpa, Peru

Departing Pucallpa, Peru

This is as far as the road will take you in Peru. Here in Pucallpa, you are already deep in the jungle, but this is the start of the Amazon basin, where the only way onwards from here is by boat. This photograph in particular is of myself taking off on a cargo boat on a 5 days journey down the Amazon River to Iquitos, leaving behind the poor community of labourers that work on the muddy banks day in day...

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