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Santiago Limachi and Marcelo Rochabrun

Bolivian boy turns photographer on iconic salt flats - with help from a dinosaur

Piter Condori, 11, takes pictures of a tourist to earn money for his family, at the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia March 27, 2022. Picture taken March 27, 2022. REUTERS/Claudia Morales

On the otherworldly white salt flats of Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, an 11-year-old boy has become a photography success taking quirky and creative pictures of tourists - with a little help from a blue plastic dinosaur toy.

Piter Condori makes use of an unusual trick of perspective on the iconic salt flats, where the even white ground stretches to the horizon, allowing skillful snappers to make small objects close to the camera appear to be much larger and further away.

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