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Statement of the Brazilian Magnum photographer, Sebastião SALGADO.
"For me, this is the very last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power of nature can be felt like no other place on earth. This forest stretches to infinity and is home to one-tenth of all living plant and animal species - the largest natural laboratory in the world. I wish with all my heart that 50 years from now this book will not be an inventory of a lost world. Amazônia must persist." (freely translated, © Sebastião SALGADO)Background information
"With Sebastião SALGADO on the trail of indigenous peoples in the Amazon rainforest. For six years he traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the incomparable beauty of this unique region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains and the people who live there - an irreplaceable treasure of humanity.Sebastião SALGADO visited a dozen indigenous peoples who live in tiny communities scattered throughout the world's largest tropical rainforest. He documented the daily lives of the Yanomami, the Asháninka, the Yawanawá, the Suruwahá, the Zo'é, the Kuikuro, the Waurá, the Kamayurá, the Korubo, the Marubo, the Awá and the Macuxi - their warm family ties, their hunting and fishing, the way they prepare and share meals, their skill at painting faces and bodies, the importance of their shamans, their dances and rituals. Sebastião SLAGADO has dedicated this book to the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon.