Natutama means “the world under water” in Ticuna, a language spoken across Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. This series traces a 2,500‑mile journey down the Amazon River and its tributaries — not to chase the mythic jungle, but to reveal the human lives along its shores.

The Amazon is often imagined as an untouched wilderness, a place where animals outnumber people. But millions live here — fishing, farming, raising children, building homes on floating platforms — their survival bound to the river and forest in ways rarely seen outside the region.

These photographs are not about exoticism. They are about reality: communities balancing daily life against deforestation, mining, fires, and systemic neglect.

Conservation cannot exist apart from these people. To understand the Amazon, we must look at those who call it home.