THE BACKSTORY
National Geographic Magazine India|November 2021
A PHOTOGRAPHER'S TAKE ON THE LITTLE PRINCE POSES BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT CULTURE AND IDENTITY.
SARA A. FAJARDO
THE BACKSTORY

ONE DAY ON A WHIM, photographer River Claure googled “Bolivia.” That image search yielded expected tropes of his country: llamas, mountains, people in traditional dress. Photographs are often taken through an exoticizing foreign gaze, as if Andean cultures are frozen in time, Claure says. In reality, the cultures are evolving and thriving in today's changing world.

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