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TRES COMUNIDADES, UN RÍO EXHIBITION​

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Tres Comunidades, Un Río: Life in the Urban Amazonian Floodplains is an internationally traveling photography and data activism exhibition showcasing the results of a multi-year transdisciplinary research project revealing stories of biodiversity, human and environmental health,  connections to nature, and community strengths in two traditionally settled, currently informal floodplain communities and a highlands relocation community in Iquitos. Traction partnered with a team of biologists, sociologists, landscape architects, public health researchers, anthropologists, a photographer and community members who engaged in drawings, photography, surveys and biodiversity measures included in the exhibition.

The exhibition opened in Iquitos in 2022 at the Ministerio de Cultura Museo Amazonico with a celebration attended by community members who participated in the project together with other members of the public as well as local media and policymakers. Since then, advocacy has continued with exhibit openings in Seattle (Gould Gallery, 2023) and Central Pennsylvania (Borland Project Space and Rause Gallery 2025) with plans to travel to Lima and New York. 

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PARTNERS

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Traction; EarthLab; Centro de Investigaciones Tecnologicas, Biomedicas y Medioambientales (CITBM); NIH Fogarty International Program; Universidad Nacional de la Amazonica Peruana (UNAP); Peru Ministerio Culturo Museo Amazonico; University of Washington; Pennsylvania State University College of Arts & Architecture and Stuckeman School of Design; Hamer Center for Community Design; E+D (Ecology Plus Design) Center; PSU Arts and Design Incubator (ADRI); CUNY School of Public Health