
Decades of Photos Reveal Amazon Cultures Under Threat
Photographer Sebastião Salgado has spent more than two decades documenting the complex lives of Indigenous Amazonian people as they stand strong in the face of unrelenting colonial forces...
Photographer Sebastião Salgado has spent more than two decades documenting the complex lives of Indigenous Amazonian people as they stand strong in the face of unrelenting colonial forces...
A pandemic micrography project
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