Valentina Del Aguila Vasquez, Iquitos, Peru Valentina Del Aguila Vasquez is considered to be the most beautiful woman in the Amazon. She won the Miss …
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A complex portrait of life in the Amazon, featuring shamans and beauty queens
Tommaso Protti captures the exploitation of the Brazilian rainforest, while Leonardo Carrato tells the story of one of the Amazon's last remaining shamans. Aaron Vincent Elkaim paints a profound portrait of a people and the landscape at the precipice of a massive change, and Yann Gross traces the diversity of communities spread along the length of the gargantuan South American river. Plus, Stan Raucher happens upon a small, evangelical community in Peru who live along the riverbank.
The photographer Leonardo Carrato has known Aladino Mimico for more than seven years now. Mimico is a Shaman living in Pebas, a village in the Amazon …
March 29, 2014. A group of boys climb a tree on the Xingu River by the city of Altamira, Para State, Brazil. Major areas of the city have been …
The destruction of the planet at the hands of imperialist forces bears out Biblical prophecies of Armageddon, though what we are witnessing today was …
A Sabbath Prayer To the Sanctuary Those who choose to live outside the norm, especially those who follow a religious leader, captivate the public …
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