Sebastio Salgado: The unparalleled beauty of the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

The social documentary photographer spent years capturing the vast areas and traditions of Amazônia

Charlotte Hodges
@CharHodges88
6 hours ago

Sebastião Salgado travelled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there.

He explains: “For me, it is the last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power of nature can be felt as nowhere else on earth. Here is a forest stretching to infinity that contains one-tenth of all living plant and animal species, the world’s largest single natural laboratory.”



Luísa, daughter of Moisés Piyãko Asháninka, paints herself in the mirror. Kampa do Rio
Amônea Indigenous Territory, state of Acre, 2016
(Sebastião Salgado)



Marauiá mountain range. Yanomami Indigenous Territory. Municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, state of
Amazonas, 2018
(Sebastião Salgado)

Salgado visited a dozen indigenous communities scattered across the largest tropical rainforest in the world, documenting the daily life of the Yanomami, the Asháninka, the Yawanawá, the Suruwahá, the Zo’é, the Kuikuro, the Waurá, the Kamayurá, the Korubo, the Marubo, the Awá and the Macuxi.

Capturing their warm family bonds, hunting and fishing techniques, the manner in which they prepare and share meals, their talent for painting their faces and bodies, the significance of their shamans, and their dances and rituals.

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/sebastiao-salgado-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-b1850793.html