Photographer
Sebasti茫o Salgado
THESE stark black and white images of the Amazon and its culture capture nature鈥檚 power and hint at the area鈥檚 precarious future. The shots are by documentary photographer Sebasti茫o Salgado and come from his latest collection, 础尘补锄么苍颈补, which highlights the lush Amazon rainforest and the complex worlds of its Indigenous communities.
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Over six years, Salgado visited a dozen different groups scattered throughout the Amazon, documenting their daily lives, ceremonies and culture.
The image below shows the Mai谩 river in Pico da Neblina National Park in north-western Brazil. The park overlaps with the territory of the , whose population of some 38,000 across an area twice the size of Switzerland makes them one of the largest groups of Indigenous people in the Amazon. Above is the mountain range near the Maraui谩 river, another landmark in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.
The image below shows Mir贸, who is a member of another Indigenous Amazonian community called the Yawanaw谩. He is shown making feather adornments, an art that is a quintessential part of Yawanaw谩n culture, as well as that of some other Indigenous communities.
Salgado dedicates 础尘补锄么苍颈补 to the Indigenous peoples he met and photographed in the hope that deforestation and other destructive projects in the region won鈥檛 make the book 鈥渁 record of a lost world鈥�.
is published by Taschen on 20 May.
