River Claure is a Bolivian photographer and visual artist known for his distinctive compositional style and his magical landscapes. River studied graphic design and visual communication at the University of San Simon, Bolivia, before completing his MSc in contemporary photography in Madrid in 2018. His practice uses various media to question both dominant notions of cultural identity and the importance of photographic images to our sense of reality. His photographic series include Warawar Wawa (2019–2020), an adaptation of Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince set in contemporary Bolivia, and Mita (2022–2024), a sensitive portrait of life in Andean mining communities that references five hundred years of colonial extractivism, both evolving from his time living in the communities they document. River’s work has been exhibited on various platforms and in cultural institutions across South America.