River Claure’s work revolves around cultural juxtapositions and investigating identities marked by territory. Winner of the Eduardo Abaroa National Award (BO) and the XVIII Roberto Villagraz International Photography Scholarship (ESP), he recently won the Genesis Imaging Award of the FORMAT 21 festival (UK) and was nominated for the Joop Swart Master Class of World Press Photo (NL). His work has been exhibited at festivals such as GetxoPhoto, Format21, FIFV Festival, Photoville, and Lagos Photo, among others. In 2020 he published his first photobook Warawar Wawa under the Colombian publisher RAYA, and was named “One to Watch” by the British Journal of Photography. He currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain.
