Sebastião Salgado. Amazon. XL

English version. For six years Sebastião Salgado traveled across the Brazilian Amazon to capture the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region, which with its forest, its rivers, its mountains and the peoples who inhabit it represents an irreplaceable heritage of humanity.
In his preface to this book, the photographer writes: "For me this is the last frontier, a mysterious universe unto itself, where the immense power of nature is felt like nowhere else on Earth. This boundless forest hosts one tenth of all existing plant and animal species: it is the single largest natural laboratory on the planet".
Salgado visited about ten indigenous tribes living in small communities scattered throughout the largest tropical forest in the world, documenting the daily life of the Yanomami, Asháninka, Yawanawá, Suruwahá, Zo’é, Kuikuro, Waurá, Kamayurá, Korubo, Marubo, Awá and Macuxi peoples: their intense family ties, hunting and fishing, the preparation and sharing of meals, their prodigious talent in painting faces and bodies, the importance of their shamans, their dances and their rituals.