Brazil.
2017
A walk around Amazonas, Manaus, Salvador da Bahia and Rio da Janeiro.
Amazonas
Just a few kilometres navigation from Manaus, where the Solimões and Negro Rivers join their waters (Encontro Das Águas), the Amazon River officially begins, and so does a different way of living. Apart from the remaining Amazon Indians, very few in numbers and scattered in the most unexplored regions, there is an important Amazonian population (around three million people) settled aside of urban centers, in the estuarine floodplains, with almost no contact with the outside world: the caboclos. They are mainly fishermen, rubber-tappers and forest farmers near the rivers' margins who have been transforming the forest environment, while being paid little serious attention, for generations, and whose ecological conscience and culture roots in the remote capability of surviving through the ancient knowledge of the forest, its wildlife, cycles and secrets.
These images portray small pieces of their lives and environment along Solimões River, in Manaquiri region, as well as their coexistence with tourism and more modern life in the municipality of Manacapuru.
These images portray small pieces of their lives and environment along Solimões River, in Manaquiri region, as well as their coexistence with tourism and more modern life in the municipality of Manacapuru.
Yacare caiman's skull as a a piece of decoration outside a caboclos' house.
Pink river dolphin.
Meeting of Waters, where the dark Rio Negro and the pale sandy-colored Amazon River or Rio Solimões (as this section of the Amazon is known) run side by side for about 9 km without mixing their waters.
Manaus
Capital city of the state of Amazonas, it is located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, watered by Rio Negro, and access to it is primarily by boat or airplane. With a colonial past behind, from the rubber boom in the late 19th century, it combines opulent monuments such as the Amazon Opera House with impoverished favelas and deteriorated streets in the historical centre, which has become an area mostly for commerce and poor housing. The Adolpho Lisboa Municipal Market, the city's oldest marketplace, founded in 1882, is one of the main points where local life happens, trading in wild fruits, vegetables and especially fish.
Exterior of the Amazon Theatre.
Amazon Theatre detail.
Amazon Theatre ceiling.
Manaus-Iranduba Bridge, first bridge in the Amazon river system.
Salvador da Bahia
/ Praia do Forte /
Rio de Janeiro
