Two Venezuelan boys in a forest full of vultures: Silvana Trevale’s best photograph

‘I left Venezuela after someone held a gun to my head. But I returned to show what beauty it has – like these two boys coming back from a fishing trip at an amazing beach’ My parents encouraged me to leave Venezuela. The situation in the country at that time, the mid 2010s, had started to get really hard, with food and medicine shortages – and violent robberies were becoming a regular thing. A lot of people had started to leave and my parents were worried that if I stayed something bad would ...

By Interview by Charlotte Jansen