Just over a month to go until the end of the exhibition “Amazônia”, by photographer Sebastião Salgado in Sao Paulo . The show, which began in February after going through Paris , London and Pomegranate took 194 photographs to the exhibition space at Sesc Pompeia and a true immersion experience in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest and all its people.
in conversation with the CNN , Salgado said that he and his wife, Lélia Wanick –who conceived and set up the exhibition, based on the photographer’s book “Amazônia”, released in 2021–, were inspired by the seven years they spent photographing forests, rivers, mountains and the indigenous people of this region, which covers the North of Brazil and extends to eight more South American countries, occupying a third of the continent. “The Amazon has impacted me deeply,” he said.
“It’s a privilege. It is a space with more than 180 different cultures and languages. Without a doubt, the Amazon region has the greatest cultural concentration on the planet.”
Amidst Salgado’s photographs, a soundtrack created by French composer Jean-Michel Jarre at the photographer’s request sets an immersive tone to the experience of being there. Jarre had access to the Museum of Ethnology in the city of Geneva, Switzerland, and used the sounds of the forest which, according to Salgado, are the guiding thread of the entire work. “He composed a 52-minute song that uses these sounds in the background. It’s a beautiful song,” he says.
The exhibition also has two spaces with photo projections. One of them features forest landscapes accompanied by the symphonic poem “Erosão (Origem do Rio Amazonas)”, by Heitor Villa-Lobos, and the other features a sequence of portraits of Indians, sounded by a piece by Rodolfo Stroeter specially composed for the show. “It is a photographic and musical work.”
The photographer also says that he saw a very big difference between the Amazon in the 1980s and the beginning of the 2000s, periods he spent in the region. “I saw that there was an immense predation of the territory. So I decided, as a Brazilian, to give up a few years of my life to carry out a work on the Amazon biome. The exhibition is not just for indigenous communities, it is also for them.”
“Indigenous peoples have never been as threatened as they are today, but there are organizations that are working at the same intensity, as a front line in the fight for the Amazon biome.”
For Sebastião Salgado, he connects his life to his language, photography. “Photography is my life, what I think, believe, love. It’s all inside her.”
“Amazônia” is on display until July 10 in São Paulo. Premieres at the Museum of Tomorrow, in Rio de Janeiro, on July 19.
* Under supervision of Elis Franco
Source: CNN Brasil
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