Claudia Andujar: A glimpse of Yanomami life in the jungle

[Judi Lynn]

31 January 2020

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For more than five decades, Swiss-Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar has devoted her life to photographing and protecting the Yanomami, one of the largest indigenous groups in Brazil.

The Yanomami live in the remote forest of the Orinoco River basin, in southern Venezuela, and around the Catrimani river in Roraima state, northern Brazil.

They hunt, practise small-scale slash-and-burn agriculture and live in small, scattered, semi-permanent villages.



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Andujar was born in Switzerland in 1931 and grew up in Transylvania, Romania.

During World War Two, her father, a Hungarian Jew, was deported to Dachau concentration camp, where he was killed along with most of his relatives.

Andujar fled with her mother to Switzerland and then to the US before finally settling in Brazil, in 1955, where she began a career as a photojournalist.

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[Nitram]

1. The photos are interesting, and are a valuable record of the group's history.

I have mixed feelings, though, about employing certain effects in the name of art when it comes to displaying an indigenous people's daily life.

[Judi Lynn]

2. I agree with you. It diminishes the seriousness of the message.

The idea of trying to use them artistically trivialized them and their lives.

Really glad to see your comment.