Warao Reflections

• Prize
  Bronze in Editorial/Environmental
• Photographer
  Taymuraz Gumerov
• Agency / Studio
  Photostudio 4U
• Technical Info
  Sony ILCE-7M3, Tamron E 28-200mm F2.8-5.6 A071
• Photo Date
  September 2021

The Warao, known as “the boat people,” inhabit the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela. Their lives are inseparable from the water — children learn to paddle before they walk, families travel and live by canoe. This series portrays daily moments of a Warao family surrounded by river, forest, and parrots. Through laughter, silence, and reflection, it reveals both the resilience and fragility of a community whose identity is bound to the waterways.