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Peruvian Portraits { 22 images } Created 21 Jul 2012

A series of portraits of the people of Peru shot during a month long visit to the country in the summer of 2012.
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  • A young boy sits in front of a colorful wall in the Belen Market, in Iquitos, Peru.  The open-air market that winds through the narrow streets of Belen sells everything from medicinal remedies to alligator meat.
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  • Portrait of a man in Huanchaco, Peru.  Huanchaco is a fishing village on the northern coast of Peru, about 15 minutes west of Trujillo, where fishermen still use traditional caballitos de torta as boats for fishing.
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  • A young girl smiles in her doorway in the district of Belen in Iquitos, Peru.  Belen is situated south of the city center of Iquitos, on the bank of the Amazon River.  It is known for its high level of poverty and for the houses built to float as the river rises and recedes every year.
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  • A woman covers her face during a long and hot work day in the open-air market in Belen, a district of Iquitos, Peru.  Poverty is a very large problem in this area, and many come to the market to buy or sell what they can to provide for themselves and their families.
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  • Children photographed at their house in Belen, Iquitos, Peru.
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  • The city of Iquitos, Peru, is the largest in the world that has no roads leading to it.  As such, the streets are dominated by motorcycles and mototaxis that are shipped in by boat.  The weather changes in a moments notice in the Amazon and the mototaxi drivers have adapted by stringing up removable plastic sheets to shield them from the rain.
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  • A young girl climbs the stairs of a slide at a playground on the edge of the Amazon River in Iquitos, Peru.
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  • Don Raphael, the chief of the three tribes of the Boras in the Peruvian Amazon looks skyward during a break in the rain.
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  • A young boy smiles through a screened door at the People of Peru Project Youth Services, or Poppys House, a non-profit organization in Iquitos, Peru, started by American Paul Opp that provides at risk girls a safe home in which to grow and learn.
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  • A fisherman in the northern Amazon River Basin in Peru.
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  • Father and son are photographed together during a reed boat tour at the Islas Los Uros, or the floating islands, of Lake Titicaca.  The Uros use totora reeds to create their floating homes and their boats and survive on fishing, trapping and tourism.
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  • Two boys relax near an arch erected on Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca.  The island is known for it's textiles and weavings and is situated within view of the Bolivian shore, at more than 12,000 feet above sea level.
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  • Two boys hang out in their family's car in the Plaza de San Blas, in the San Blas neighborhood of Cusco, Peru.
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  • The Plaza de Armas in Cusco, Peru, is typically full of women in traditional dress trying to make ends meet by charging tourists to pose for portraits.  Since the conquest of the Incas by the Spanish back in the sixteenth century, the architecture of the Plaza is predominantly European, with many massive cathedrals.  This portrait juxtaposes the two words of Cusco, Peru.
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  • Typist - Arequipa, Peru - While reading his newspaper he patiently awaits customers in need of the legibility and accuracy required for the submission of official government paperwork.
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  • People wait for the bus on a street in Cusco, Peru, beneath the "Viva El Peru" sign, etched into the hillside south of the city.
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  • A portrait of a man named Leonidas in Cusco, Peru.  Leonidas is 79 years old and walks the two miles from where he lives to the Plaza de Armas everyday to try to get money for food.  As opposed to many of the others in Cusco who try to sell trinkets for money, Leonidas relies on his story, sitting down next to foreigners to tell them of his situation where he has no relatives, no pension, cataracts and can no longer work.
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  • A boy rests on the side of his father's boat as he pilots through the Amazon River near Iquitos, Peru.
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  • A young man named Kevin paddles a canoe through a tributary of the Amazon River near the village of San Pedro.  The village is celebrating their 93rd anniversary and boasts a population of 150.
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  • Phone Renting Agent - Ica, Peru - In a city where mobile phones are scarce and crime is high, it's necessary to take precautions, with chains tethering rentable phones to their owner, a concrete link in an otherwise wireless world.
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  • Guards stand as a silent sentry in the afternoon light at the Iglesia San Francisco in Arequipa, Peru.  Many of the buildings in the downtown colonial section of the city are made of volcanic sillar, a white porous rock from the surrounding volcanoes.
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  • Portrait of a man from the island of Taquile on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca.  The men on this island are known for their weaving, and all single men wear a hat made of two solid colors, while married men wear hats of a single color.
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