Sebastião Salgado
Guardians of beauty
The photographer Sebastião Salgado (Brazil, 1944) travelled around the Amazon jungle for seven years on different expeditions, portraying its natural exuberance along with the inhabitants of the region. An exhibition of over 200 photographs, entitled Amazônia and organised by La Fábrica, allows us to contemplate his work until 14 January at Teatro Fernán Gómez in Madrid.
text César Mateu Moyà
photography Sebastião Salgado
Salgado, who won the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 1998, illustrates the importance of preserving the Amazon rainforest and its inhabitants, as well as its beauty. His images show a vast green carpet from the air, decorated with the meandering, rippling lines of slow-moving rivers. Natural phenomena like the “flying rivers” that result from the transpiration of water by the region’s 400,000 million trees, or the Anavilhanas, the largest freshwater archipelago in the world. As well as tropical storms, unique mountain peaks, jungle-covered slopes and the imposing trees of the forest.
The Brazilian photographer also portrays some of the more than 310,000 indigenous people who inhabit the Amazon. These photographs speak of their everyday life and reveal some characteristics of their culture and the problems they face, above all in the Xingu indigenous territory, the first great indigenous reserve created to protect [...]
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