Giacomo Bruno Photographs the People of Beira do Río and Açaì, the Raw Gold of the Amazon

Italian photographer Giacomo Bruno traveled all the way to the depths of the Amazon forest, far from civilization, to meet the people of Beira do Río. You see, the people of this community that calls Par , Brazil their home grow and harvest açaì, whose fruit has been hailed by many as a superfood. It's so valuable that people all over the world had taken to calling it the raw or purple gold of the Amazon.