Sebastião Salgado’s ‘Amazonia’ exhibition arrives in Brazil after Salgado ‘traveled’ the world

Marcela Leiros – from Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – The exhibition of photographer Sebastião Salgado, entitled “Amazonia”, arrived in Brazil and has its opening confirmed for next Monday, 14, at Sesc Pompeia, in São Paulo. This is the first time the exhibition sets foot on Brazilian soil after touring the world and galleries in major cities such as the National Art Museum of the 21st Century in Rome, and the Philharmonie in Paris, France.

Idealized by Lélia Wanick Salgado, the photographer’s wife, the exhibition brings together more than 200 black and white images of a “still little known Amazon”. The photos were taken during seven years of photographic expeditions made by Sebastião Salgado in the region.

“The exhibition highlights the fragility of this ecosystem, showing how in protected areas, where indigenous communities, ancestral guardians of the environment, live in territories where the forest has hardly suffered any damage”, says the description of the exhibition on the artist’s own social networks.

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Photographs at the “Amazônia” exhibition (ContrastoBooks)

Photographs at the “Amazônia” exhibition (ContrastoBooks)

Photographs at the “Amazônia” exhibition (ContrastoBooks)

Photographs at the “Amazônia” exhibition (ContrastoBooks)

Photographs at the “Amazônia” exhibition (ContrastoBooks)

Photographs at the “Amazônia” exhibition (ContrastoBooks)

In a live of the National Council of Justice, still in September 2021, Salgado presented the 200 photographic panels of the exhibition and made an account of one of the experiences he lived to register the Amazon that few know.

“I was able for the first time to present the largest mountain range in Brazil, the Imeri. It is located in the Amazon and Brazilians don’t know about it. The Amazon is not just the great plain where rivers wind through the middle. It is the aerial rivers. This wonderful thing that guarantees humidity in the whole agricultural area of the Center-West and South of Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina. These flying rivers carry a colossal volume of water to the whole planet. We cannot lose the Amazon Forest. It is generous, it gives to everyone”, he said at the time.

“Amazônia” will be on display until July 10 in the Sesc Pompeia’s living area, with visits from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am to 9pm, and on Sundays and holidays, from 10am to 6pm. Admission is free. As of July 19, the exhibition can be seen at the Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow), in Rio de Janeiro.

See some of Sebastião Salgado’s photographs: