Photographers [Oo] Brazilian Amazon | Photos by Sebastião Salgado, 2005-2018

Sebastião Salgado, Bela Yawanawá, with a headdress and painted face. Village of Mutum, Rio Gregório Indigenous Territory, State of Acre, 2016

Sebastião Salgado, Adão Yawanawá in a headdress of eagle feathers, 2017

Sebastião Salgado, Rio Gregório Indigenous Territory, State of Acre, Brazil, 2016

Sebastião Salgado, Cousins Hahani, Tiniru, and Ugunja at the SESAI health post near the Pretão stream. Suruwahá Indigenous Territory, State of Amazonas, Brazil, 2017

Sebastião Salgado, Women in Zo’é Indigenous Territory color their bodies with the red fruit of the urucum, Pará, Brazil, 2009

Sebastião Salgado, Residents of communities in the Demini River region. Yanomami Indigenous Territory, State of Amazonas, Brazil, 2014

Sebastião Salgado, Hunting encampment. Ituí River, Valley of Javari Indigenous Territory, State of Amazonas, Brazil, 2017

Sebastião Salgado, Suruwaha, Amazonas, Brazil, 2017

Sebastião Salgado, Blumenbach’s Hocco or curassow, Korubo indigenous territory, Javari Valley, Amazon State, Brazil, 2017

Sebastião Salgado, Xingu Indigenous Territory, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, 2005

Sebastião Salgado, Kampa do Rio Amônea Indigenous Territory, State of Acre, Brazil, 2016

Sebastião Salgado, Sína, from the Marubo village of Maronal, is a teacher. He wears body paint made of genipap, worn during wasp-sting festivals to ward off panema (laziness or bad luck). The red urucum paint is worn during corn festivals and in wars. Javari Valley, Marubo Indigenous Territory, state of Amazonas, 2018

A native of Brazil, Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025) has made more than 58 trips to Amazonia. He spent six years immersed in the Brazilian Amazon as he documented the world’s largest tropical rainforest in black-and-white.

“These Indians in the forest, they are integrated with the water, with the soil, with the forest, with the animals.”

Sebastião Salgado

“What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don’t want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.”

Sebastião Salgado, 1944-2025

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