For more than five decades, artist and activist, Claudia Andujar, has been photographing and defending the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous groups living in Amazonia. Her collection of ...
Director Luiz Bolognesi resists patronizing cultural fetishry in his artful documentary portrait of the Amazonian Yanomami community, giving them a narrative voice of their own. “Only in our forest ...
An exhibition of the extraordinary work of Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar, opening in June at the Barbican in London, shines a light on the rich and complex cosmology of the Yanomami tribe – ...
Men and women of the Yanomami people paint their bodies, drawing straight, curved, dotted and parallel lines, arcs and circles, triangles, rectangles, grids, spider's webs or rings, all arranged as if ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Three indigenous babies from the Yanomami Indigenous group who died with suspected COVID-19 infection were buried in a cemetery in the city of Boa ...
“The Yanomami Struggle,” which opened this week at the Shed in New York, focuses on the Indigenous people of the Amazon and their ongoing fight to survive. Their plight is a universal story and an ...
“Can’t I accept the reality,” photographer Claudia Andujar wrote in her notebook during a 1976 trip to the Yanomami territories of the Brazilian Amazon, “of the poorly resolved contact of the Indians ...
Claudia Andujar, "Collective house near the Catholic mission on the Catrimani River, Roraima state" (1976), mineral pigment print (from infrared film), 35.8 x 55.1 ...
Since 1984, the Fondation Cartier for contemporary art has served as a catalyst for conversations surrounding artistic creation through exhibitions, live performances, and facilitated talks worldwide.
If you liked this story, share it with other people. In an interview with Mongabay, filmmakers Davi Kopenawa and Luiz Bolognesi talk about the production process of “The Last Forest,” a documentary ...
This article was written by Emily Costa and Kátia Brasil for the Amazônia Real. It is republished by Global Voices under a partnership agreement. On July 1, a mother of Yanomami ethnicity, and member ...
Entrancing at times and eventually hard-hitting, Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha’s feature amplifies the voices of Indigenous people speaking directly to those who threaten their existence.