Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia

Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia showcases the unparalleled beauty of the Brazilian Amazon through the lens of Sebastião Salgado, accumulated over six years. This extraordinary region—encompassing the forest, rivers, mountains, and its indigenous inhabitants—stands as an irreplaceable treasure of humanity.

In the book's foreword, Salgado states: "For me, it is the last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power of nature can be felt as nowhere else on earth. Here is a forest stretching to infinity that contains one-tenth of all living plant and animal species, the world's largest single natural laboratory."

Salgado visited a dozen indigenous tribes living in the world's largest tropical rainforest. His documentation captures the daily life of the Yanomami, the Asháninka, the Yawanawá, the Suruwahá, the Zo'é, the Kuikuro, the Waurá, the Kamayurá, the Korubo, the Marubo, the Awá, and the Macuxi. He focuses on their warm family bonds, hunting and fishing practices, meal preparation and sharing, their remarkable talent for face and body painting, and the significance of their shamans, dances, and rituals.

Sebastião Salgado dedicates this book to the indigenous peoples of Brazil's Amazon region, expressing his hope that "in 50 years' time this book will not resemble a record of a lost world. Amazônia must live on."

INSTITUTO TERRA

Founded in 1998 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Instituto Terra epitomizes the lifelong activism and cultural documentation efforts of Lélia Wanick Salgado and Sebastião Salgado. Through a meticulous scientific program of planting and raising saplings, the organisation has achieved a miraculous reforestation of a once infertile region, furthering the Salgados' mission of reversing ecological damage. TASCHEN is proud to reach carbon-zero status through our continued partnership.

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