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The Maxxi Museum in Rome celebrates the great Brazilian photographer, Sebastião Salgado with a magnificent exhibition entitled “Amazônia”.
An economist by training, Sebastião Salgado left the small town of Vitoria in Espirito Santo in 1969 to pursue a doctorate in economics in Paris.
Intimately linked to France, he discovered photography there and organized his first exhibition devoted to La Courneuve, the City of 4000 social housing, an extreme and popular city where he lived when he arrived in France.
His friend, Henri Cartier Bresson guided and helped him in his search to be- come such a talented spokesperson for social and human photography.
The Roman exhibition, of which his wife, Lélia Wanik Salgado is curator and scenographer, presents more than 200 images, accompanied by immense pro- jections that retrace his exploration journey in the Amazon.
For more than six years, he turned his lenses towards the incredible beauty of this aspect of Brazilian nature, focusing his attention on the forests, rivers, mountains and the lifestyles of ten ethnic groups who live in these unspoiled places. The Amazon rain forest occupies an area larger than the entire European Union and its river, the Rio, crosses nine South American countries.
Photo © Sebastião Salgado/Contrasto
Young Ashaninka Woman. State of Acre, Brazil, 2016