Daily Foto: Somewhere Along the Amazon River
Phodographer John Carr along the Amazon, Brazil Sept 2009
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Here is a fascinating account from John Carr of London who backpacked with a printer to practice Dog Meets World. “Travelling with the locals on a slow boat on the Amazon, furnished with hammocks and little else, we’d noticed the day before that occasionally river-dwellers from huts would paddle out in canoes in the hope of collecting something from the boat. Later a canoe actually attached itself to the boat, and three young boys clambered on the boat with bags of shrimp to sell the passengers; aged between 4 and 9, they lived in one of the river-huts and were trying to get money for provisions.
As the youngest of the boys came round to my hammock, I asked him in broken Portuguese whether he wanted a photo. He looked a little confused but was happily manoevered for a photo, before standing sheepishly by as I pulled out a strange contraption and urged him to watch and wait. As I handed him the photo, he seemed completely bamboozled, looking from me to it with a dumbfounded look, before his brothers came along, completely amazed, and ran off down the boat with the photo. One by one, they came back, looking at me expectantly before they too had a photo of their own. Minutes later, with photos safely sealed away, the youngest rowed back out to the river while the other two backflipped off the boat and disappeared into the distance.