Photographer shows first images of uncontacted Amazon tribe
A photographer has captured images of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe after his helicopter flight took a detour to avoid a rainstorm and happened to fly over their longhouse.
“I took the camera and started photographing,” said Brazilian photographer Ricardo Stuckert. “I didn’t have much time to imagine what was happening.”
It was a moment of luck for Stuckert, who was on his way to Acre, near the Peruvian border, to photograph another indigenous group for a book he is working on, when he spotted the longhouse.
On the return flight, on 18 December, he was able to grab more images that provide tantalising clues to the lives of uncontacted tribes. Brazil has around 80 such groups but their existence is increasingly threatened by illegal loggers, miners and drug traffickers.
He was impressed with the body paint on one of the men, which he saw as camouflage. “When it is cold we put clothes on. They put that paint to protect themselves,” he said. “I thought, ‘You have to photograph this, it has to be preserved’.”
Three isolated groups live in Acre state, said José Carlos Meirelles, an expert in Brazil’s indigenous peoples who was also on the flight.
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