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Amazonia
Science Museum
AMAZONIA, this new exhibition at the Science Museum, explores the recent work of the celebrated Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado.
It runs from October 13 to March 2022, and features over 200 images, highlighting the unparalleled beauty of this vast region and the critical importance of protecting it. In May 2022, it will travel to the Science Museum in Manchester.
All the images are in black and white, and characterised by Salgado’s amazing ability to capture reality in intense, highly contrasting tones, lending a unique graphic quality and a sense of awe to his iconic images.
Famous for documenting social and environmental issues facing humanity, his work looks at the fragile relationship between nature and human beings.
Salgado worked in the Amazon for six years and documented 12 different indigenous communities whose home is the region’s vast rainforests.
We are presented with his unique perspective on these indigenous communities, their forest and riparian environment.
The exhibition is curated and designed by Lelia Wanick Salgado and is complemented by video interviews with indigenous leaders and activists which helps place Salgado’s images in the context of the need to protect these fragile communities before it is too late.
The sheer power of his photographs brings this distant region close to us as never before.
From images of epic landscapes, vistas of rainforests taken from river boats as well as sweeping aerial shots of the immense waterfalls under stormy skies to intimate portraits of the people who live there, we are taken on an incredible journey through a special part of the world which we are on the verge of losing.
Salgado said: “As a Brazilian, the Amazon with its incredible colours, rich textures and awe-inspiring vistas has always had a special place in my heart.
“Over the course of six years travelling through the region I witnessed first-hand the damage over-consumption has had on its landscape and people.
“I hope visitors to Amazonia will feel inspired by its beauty but also understand the urgent need for action to prevent this unique biodiversity being lost.”
JOHN GREEN
Ends March 2022, tickets £10.
