Sebastiao Salgado, Xingu Indigenous Territory, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, 2005 (05-3-241-67).
Signature: Signed by artist

At daybreak, Waurá Indians travel by canoe to collect the "waiting net" that caught fish overnight. During major festivals, communities expecting visits from other villages prepare copious extra food to welcome and feed guests during their stay, and so they will have food to take with them on the journey home. Xingu Indigenous Territory, State of Mato Grosso, 2005.

Size: 16" x 20"

Artist Bio:

Graduated as an economist, Sebastião Salgado began his career as a photographer in 1973 in Paris, working with the Sygma, Gamma and Magnum Photos photo agencies. Today, with Lelia Wanick Salgado, his life and work partner, he has his own structure. He has travelled to more than 100 countries for his photographic projects, which, in addition to innumerous publications in the international press, have been presented in several books and exhibitions -conceived and designed by Lelia - such as "Sahel, l'homme en detresse", "Other Americas", "Workers", "Terra", "Exodus", "Africa", "Genesis" and "Gold". He is a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts de France, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, Doctor Honoris Causa of Harvard University (USA), and his major honours include the Primo Levi Prize (Italy), the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the Praemium Imperiale Prize of the Japan Art Association, considered to be the Nobel Prize of the Arts. In 1998, he and Lelia set up Instituto Terra in Brazil, a non-profit civil organisation focusing on reforestation, environmental education and sustainable rural development in the Rio Doce valley, in the state of Minas Gerais. Today, Instituto Terra has created a forest rich in a variety of flora and fauna endemic to the Atlantic Forest. In 2021, the couple launched their latest project: a book and major photographic exhibition on the Amazon rain forest and its indigenous communities, calling for the preservation of this biodiversity that is so important for the planet and for the protection of these threatened populations.

Headshot copyright: Renato Amoroso