Journeying down the Rio Napo in northern Peru, I had five days to enjoy the work life of five young porters. The ferry is a godsend. The boat I am travelling on is the only outside connection the villagers along with the river experience. Goods and passengers are exchanged, and it is the boys who make it happen. Whatever is on the bank, they bring it aboard. The ferry brings with it a promise of development to the isolated villages. Diesel generators are common and allow for the import of electronic goods, and all the local children appeared for the arrival of the village's first television. The boat was also a reminder of the challenges the world faces to bring fair conditions to all, animals included, and their welfare was worse than I had expected. They are cash crops only here, it was hard to watch their treatment and their constant cries cut to the bone. For the boys, the ferry brings the chance to earn a good wage and a chance to rise up the boat's ranks. Many dreams of owning their own ferry and the prosperity it brings but for now, they must stay happy keeping the rivers produce flowing and its people moving. These photographs are of them and their work on the river.

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About
There is so much that can be gained from looking into someone else's world. Will is a photographer trying to capture what he sees. His work aims to document other cultures and the kinship we all share. We make it through the day in so many different ways, but we are all so very similar. He feels images should be arresting and dynamic, they are a moment in time, of course, but the frame and its actors are real and never stand still for long. He attempts to harness energy through movement or the raw emotion of the subject to keep the images alive in the viewer's mind.

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