SEBASTIÃO SALGADO’S AMAZONIA: AN ODE TO LIFE
Bela Yawanawá, from the village of Mutum, with a headdress and painted face. Rio Gregório Indigenous Territory, state of Acre, 2016 ( Photo by Sebastião Salgado ) By Monica Martinez Sunday afternoon. After entering the huge exhibition pavilion for Amazonia at SESC Pompeia, I closed my eyes and let the heat of over 30 degrees fall over me like a thick, wet blanket. And slowly transport me to the Amazon forests. When I opened my eyes, I found myself surrounded by almost 200 images, the result of seven years of photographic expeditions through the Brazilian Amazon. I was hooked by Sebastião Salgado ‘s unique vision. It is a pristine, exuberant, rich Amazon that reveals itself in front of our eyes. The exhibition curator was very successful in her project of idealizing an environment in which the visitor would feel him/herself in harmony with biodiversity and forest peoples. Her design of allowing us to view the photographs from the same angle of their creator is fully achieved. After