Sebastiao Salgado. Amazonia

Sebastião Salgado spent six years exploring the Brazilian Amazon, capturing the unmatched beauty of this extraordinary region through his lenses. This vast area, filled with lush forests, flowing rivers, towering mountains, and the diverse communities that inhabit it, is a true treasure for humanity. In the foreword of his book, Salgado reflects on the Amazon as "the last frontier," a unique realm where the raw power of nature is unmatched anywhere else on the planet. This region hosts a forest so vast that it comprises one-tenth of all living plant and animal species, making it the largest natural laboratory in existence.

Throughout his journey, Salgado reached out to a dozen indigenous tribes living in scattered, small communities throughout the world's largest tropical rainforest. He meticulously documented the intimate details of their everyday lives, including how the Yanomami, Asháninka, Yawanawá, Suruwahá, Zo'é, Kuikuro, Waurá, Kamayurá, Korubo, Marubo, Awá, and Macuxi nurture strong family ties, hunt, fish, prepare meals, and share them. His photographs also capture their remarkable skills in face and body painting, the crucial roles of their shamans, and the vibrancy of their dances and rituals.

Through this book, Sebastião Salgado pays homage to the indigenous peoples of Brazil’s Amazon, expressing his heartfelt wish that 50 years from now, this work will not become a relic of a vanished world. He hopes that the Amazon will continue to thrive for future generations.