Sebastião Salgado: amazônia (2022)

picture #1 Aerial Views: Municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira. Cauaburi River, Yanomami Indigenous Territory, Maturacá region. State of Amazonas, 2018

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picture #3 Flying Rivers: Jaú River, Jaú National Park. View of an igapó, a type of forest frequently flooded by blackwater from rivers. State of Amazonas, 2019

picture #4 Torrential Rains: São Gabriel da Cachoeira area, Yanomami Indigenous Territory, State of Amazonas, 2018

picture #5 Mountains: Imeri mountain range, in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, Municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, State of Amazonas, 2009

picture #6 The Forest: Green-winged macaws (Ara chloropterus). These birds from the Psittacidae family mate for life and so are normally seen flying in pairs. Generally, if there are three bird flying, it is because they have a baby. Jaú National Park, State of Amazonas, 2019.

picture #7 The Forest: Aerial view of woodland typical of the Amazon rain forest. State of Pará, 2009

picture #8 The Forest: A bend in the Gregório River, under the hill where the Yawanawá village of Nova Esperança is located. This region of Acre consists of “new lands,” as the river’s course changes often due to the force of floodwaters. Rio Gregório Indigenous Territory, State of Acre, 2016

picture #9 Anavilhanas: What looks like a lake is just a large backwater surrounded by islands that separate it from the main course of the Rio Negro. As the river’s water level varies between winter and summer, whole islands can vanish in the floods and reappear during droughts or may even disappear forever as their sands are carried off to later attach to some other island. The contours of the islands can change frequently. The Anavilhanas are never quite the same in any two moments. Anavilhanas National Park, State of Amazonas, 2009.