Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia

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La visita è accompagnata da una traccia audio immersiva commissionata appositamente per l’allestimento della mostra Amazônia da Jean-Michel Jarre che fa rivivere i suoni della foresta pluviale. Con una vera e propria sinfonia del mondo composta dai suoni concreti della foresta – il fruscio degli alberi, i pianti degli animali, il canto degli uccelli o lo scroscio delle acque che sgorgano dalla cima delle montagne -, la mostra restituisce anche la voce e i canti degli indigeni, tutti provenienti dagli archivi sonori del Museo di Etnografia di Ginevra. A Est, nello Stato di Roraima, Monte Roraima, che fa parte della Serra do Paracaima, rappresenta una formazione geologica alquanto peculiare. Con una vetta che raggiunge 2.800 metri, questa montagna dalla cima piatta che si erge sul confine con la Guyana e il Venezuela, appartiene alla categoria dei tepui che ospita specie vegetali ed animali endemiche. Instituto Terra was founded by the Salgados in 1998 on degraded land previously farmed by the family. Over twenty years, they have slowly regrown part of the Atlantic Forest. Visitors will see photographs documenting the reforesting they have achieved and hear from staff at the Instituto about their work. T he Instituto now provides a home for endangered species, raises millions of tree seedlings in its nursery every year, and trains young ecologists to help protect the region’s biodiversity for generations to come. En el prólogo del libro, Salgado escribe: «Para mí, es la última frontera, un universo misterioso donde el poder de la naturaleza se puede sentir como en ningún otro lugar de la Tierra. Aquí, hay un bosque que se extiende hasta el infinito y que contiene una décima parte de todas las especies vegetales y animales existentes. Es el laboratorio natural más grande del mundo». In the final section of the exhibition visitors will also discover how the Salgados are working to protect the “other Brazilian rainforest”, the Mata Atlantica (Atlantic Forest) through the work of Instituto Terra.

Questo ciclo naturale, che è sopravvissuto per milioni di anni, ora è in pericolo. La deforestazione sta accelerando, soprattutto ai margini della giungla, dove la presenza di strade ha attirato agricoltori, tagliatori di legna e minatori. Tale fenomeno si sta concentrando prevalentemente nei territori demaniali, mentre le foreste delle terre indigene e dei parchi nazionali sono per ora interessate in modo più marginale. Manda Yawanawá, the daughter of Jeré Yawanawá, from the village of Escondido, Rio Gregório Indigenous Territory, state of Acre, Brazil, 2016. The Yawanawá community, which had only 120 members in the 1970s, has been able to rebuild itself and reconnect with the knowledge of the elders. In 1998, Salgado and his wife, Lélia, founded Instituto Terra, located on the photographer’s family farm, in the Rio Doce river valley. To restore this land which had been degraded by erosion, the couple established a reforestation programme in Minas Gerais state, planting three million trees in twenty years.Our aim is to draw attention to the unparalleled beauty of this vast region and to underline the critical importance of protecting it and its endangered inhabitants.” This exhibition contains nudity and content that some visitors might find challenging. EVENTS Protecting Rainforests: The Planet’s Great Protectors The Science Museum is open Wednesday – Sunday from 10.00 until 18.00. During school holidays the museum is open seven days a week.

For years, he and his wife Leliahave worked to restore a portion of the Atlantic Forest. And they created Instituto Terra, a nature reserve and an institute for reforestation, conservation and environmental education. The problems of Amazônia are well known and urgent: fires, deforestation, intrusive agriculture, roadbuilding. But Salgado – who with his wife, Lélia, has turned the family farm in Aimorés into a nature reserve that’s a model of reforestation – shows there is still much to fight for. The modern world, for all its rapacity, has only destroyed “a little bit of the periphery. The heart is there yet. To show this pristine place, I photograph Amazônia alive, not the dead Amazônia.”Magnum Opus is the largest curated photographic solo exhibition that Sotheby’s has ever mounted, bringing together work from 40 years of Salgado’s career. It is a chance to see many of Salgado’s greatest hits, among them a striking shot of a mud-covered worker bent over in exhaustion while hauling a heavy load up out of the Serra Pelada goldmine; two members of the Mixe Indigenous community in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, arms outstretched while gazing out into the clouds as though they are about to fly off; and refugees from the 1983-85 Ethiopian famine huddled around a massive tree trunk while godlike rays of sunlight penetrate down diagonally around them. Of the many reasons one should spend some time visiting Magnum Opus, perhaps the most pertinent is that these photographs inspire feelings that we do not get enough of. Looking at Salgado’s work, one feels a sense of connection with the people and animals inhabiting the world around us, as well as thankfulness for the splendor that exists all over the Earth. Al centro della mostra gli ospiti trovano tre alloggiamenti che rappresentano le case indigene chiamate “ocas”. Insieme, questi spazi espongono 100 fotografie delle popolazioni dell’Amazzonia, insieme a interviste video dei leader indigeni. Questa parte è dedicata a 12 gruppi indigeni che Salgado ha immortalato nei suoi numerosi viaggi: Awa-Guajá, Marubo, Korubo, Waurá, Kamayurá, Kuikuro, Suruwahá, Asháninka, Yawanawá, Yanomami, Macuxi and Zo’é. When I photographed animals, it was difficult, because I was trying to understand their logic,” said Salgado. “But working with humans, it was easier, because there was no difference between us.”