"Some people say that my work questions dominant notions of cultural identity, and perhaps that's true,"
"But I'm drawn to many things, such as thinking about landscapes, or the way clouds appear in a bright blue sky in some of my photographs."
"I was not very conscious-nor did I value my Indigenous roots at all; in fact, it is something I specifically denied,"
"I remember episodes in my teens where I didn't want my friends in high school to know that my grandmother was Chola. It was something of which I was ashamed, although of course now, I find that ridiculous."
River Claure is a Bolivian photographer based in Cochabamba whose images blend daily life, magical realism, and landscape. His grandparents immigrated from Calacota in the 1970s to escape political conflicts, shaping family memory. Claure initially rejected his Indigenous roots but later embraced them as central to his art. His photographs incorporate Christian symbolism, such as the Virgin Cerro figures, and playful tableaux featuring soccer players and children. Claure describes his practice as a professional play that mixes family history, Indigenous identity, post-internet contradictions, fashion, literature, and colonial archives to examine community, narrative, and land.
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