Sebastião Salgado traveled for six years through the Brazilian Amazon region, photographing the incomparable beauty of this unique area: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains, and the people who live there – an irreplaceable treasure of humanity.

In his foreword, Salgado writes: “For me, this is the very last frontier, a unique, mysterious universe where the immense power of nature can be felt like nowhere else on Earth. This forest stretches into infinity and is home to a tenth of all living plant and animal species – the largest natural laboratory in the world.”

Salgado visited a dozen indigenous peoples living in tiny communities scattered across the largest tropical rainforest in the world. He documented the daily lives of the Yanomami, Asháninka, Yawanawá, Suruwahá, Zo’é, Kuikuro, Waurá, Kamayurá, Korubo, Marubo, Awá, and Macuxi – their warm family bonds, their hunting and fishing, the way they prepare and share meals, their skill in painting faces and bodies, the importance of their shamans, their dances, and rituals.

Sebastião Salgado has dedicated this book to the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon. “I sincerely hope that in 50 years this book will not be seen as a record of a lost world. Amazônia must endure.”

INSTITUTO TERRA
Founded in 1998 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Instituto Terra is the result of Lélia Wanick Salgado’s and Sebastião Salgado’s lifelong fight for the preservation of nature and biodiversity. Through the systematic planting of new seedlings, the organization has achieved a miraculous reforestation of the once barren valley, supporting the Salgados’ goal to mitigate the effects of global warming on our planet. TASCHEN is proud to have achieved CO2-neutral publisher status through our contribution to this mission.

Also available in a Collector’s Edition and four Art Editions, each with a signed silver gelatin print, all accompanied by a bookstand designed by Renzo Piano.