Sebastiao Salgado Sees Bolsonaro's Damage in the Amazon and Expects Funai's Rehabilitation
Photographer brings to Brazil series of images of the Amazon rainforest shown in Europe
Jan.28.2022 1:56PM
Carolina Moraes
SÃO PAULO
Sebastião Salgado isn’t bringing to Brazilian public the images of the Amazon on fire that we have become accustomed to seeing in recent years.
The photographer's black and white Amazon is this grandiose landscape, beyond any human scale, full of rivers that seem to cut through the land and the sky, entangled by a fog that swallows its great hills.
"I hope that my photographs reflect this generosity of the Amazon," he said. An exhibition with his series on the Amazon rainforest will open in February at Sesc Pompeia, in São Paulo. These images have been shown in London, Paris and Rome.
Salgado started photographing the Amazon in the 1980s, but intensified his expeditions in the early 2000s during the "Genesis" project, carried out in untouched places on the planet.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/culture/2022/01/sebastiao-salgado-sees-bolsonaros-damage-in-the-amazon-and-expects-funais-rehabilitation.shtml
Amazon in pictures: Sebastião Salgado's last frontier
Published22 May 2021
Black and white photograph of a cloud above trees and water
IMAGE SOURCE,SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Bank of the Rio Negro, near the Anavilhanas archipelago, in the state of Amazonas, 2019
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado spent six years travelling around the Amazon region, capturing images of the forest, rivers and mountains for his latest book, Amazônia.
"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," he says.
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Cotingo River Falls, in the state of Roraima, 2018
"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."
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Marauiá mountain range, state of Amazonas, 2018
A lifelong advocate for the Amazon's indigenous people, Salgado documented the daily lives of a dozen of the tribes scattered throughout the rainforest - from hunting and fishing expeditions, to dances and rituals.
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-57162597
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More google images by Sebastião Salga:
https://tinyurl.com/4kbf3bp7