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wonderful post on the Amazon, Luke! Thanks for sharing-- Nico

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Luke Waterson updated their profile photo May 26, 2010

ART IN THE DEPTHS OF THE AMAZON

It’s a long journey from Iquitos, raucous capital of the Peruvian rainforest, downriver to the isolated town of Pevas. Erratic speedboats do make the journey but for most local people and for me, the trip by riverboat is twelve hours. Pevas is tucked into a tributary of the Amazon close to the Colombian and Brazilian borders. Travellers rarely come here: why would they? Frontier-bound boats bypass the town and tourists favour less-pristine jungle nearer Iquitos for their Amazon adventures.My…See More

Blog post by Luke Waterson May 24, 2010

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Luke Waterson is now a member of Create Culture May 17, 2010

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My Role: Artist

My Discipline(s): Digital Arts, Literary Arts

About Me And My Work: Author and Photojournalist - Author of four travel guides and Contributing Author to one travel/culture compendium. Winner of several short story competitions. Currently working on second novel.

Places I Would Like To Visit: These include:
Meeting Amazon artists in Peru/Bolivia/Brazil
Writing on Mexican Art and Literature in Mexico City
Writing Articles on cafe art initiatives across Western Canada.

Dream travel destination for experiencing new arts/cultures: Southeast Asia and Japan

Art Forms And Cultures I Would Like To Engage With: My dream collaboration would be with a photographer for a book or full-length feature on Easter Island indigenous culture. Or, failing that, a collaboration with a wildlife photographer for a book on Galapagos wildlife.

My Creative Influences & Favorite Artists: Artists/ Sculptors/Photographers: Gustav Klimt/ Paul Nash/ Rainer Maria Rilke/Annie Leibovitz
Authors: Fyodor Dostoyevsky/ Ernst Hemingway/ Christopher Isherwood/ George Orwell