The Rupununi Rodeo takes place on the Easter weekend every year at the Guyana/Brazil border town of Lethem.Visitors travel to the area to witness the spectacle of vaqueros (cowboys) and cowgirls competing to ride wild cows and horses, with the simple rule that whoever can stay on the longest without being violently flung to the ground, wins. Of course, there are other side attractions such as children competition to catch a greasy pig.
This year, international photographer Andrea De Silvawas among the visitors to the Runununi Rodeo, and has shared these photos with Pepperpot.
Andrea prides herself with being a respected international award-winning visual story-teller and integrated photojournalist, with 30 years of experience, which all started when she took up an internship at the Trinidad Guardian newspaper.
In December 2006, she resigned from The Guardian to showcase her own brand, Silva Image, an all purpose photography company (www.silvaimage.net) which has been embraced by a number of individual and corporate clients in Trinidad and Tobago and throughout the Caribbean.
In 2007, she agreed to a contract to work as a photojournalist with the well-respected Thomson Reuters News Agency. Andrea also continues to freelance for a number of international publications and media houses.
“My goal is to bring the viewer to a place where they should feel as if they’re there, watching the moment live,” she says.