The tip of the Spanish mainland at Tarifa is among David s favourite wild places in the world IN the beginning they existed only in my boyhood imagination. I was always the dreamer back then and in my mind’s eye I could see them but not yet reach out and touch them. Snowy mountains like citadels, parched undulating deserts, windswept seas and skies full of stars, always the stars, these were the landscapes of those early dreams. Who really knows where our love of wild, untamed and elemental places comes from? Books, especially those filled with tales of derring-do were the kindling for my fiery imagination. On opening them it was as if a gateway had appeared and my own adventures could begin alongside those larger-than-life explorers, mountaineers, sailors and aviators that inhabited their pages.
Sebastião Salgado Amazônia
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In the Journals, May 2021
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The rain is so intense in Serra do Divisor National Park that it looks like an atomic mushroom cloud. State of Acre, 2016. All images © Sebastião Salgado, courtesy of Taschen, shared with permission
Photographer Sebastião Salgado spent six years immersed in the Brazilian Amazon as he documented the world’s largest tropical rainforest in black-and-white. From wide, aerial shots framing the vegetation populating the landscape to sincere portraits of Indigenous peoples living throughout the region, Salgado’s wide-ranging photographs are a revealing and intimate study of the area today.
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Amazônia, a 528-page tome from Taschen compiles these images, which in the absence of color, are attentive to naturally occurring contrasts in light and texture. They explore the unique environment and cultural milieu Salgado experienced during his travels as he visited multiple small communities the tribes include the Yanomami, the Asháninka, the Yawanawá, the Suruwahá, the Zo’é,