Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe
In 1971 photographer Claudia Andujar began documenting the lives of a remote indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. Her photographs helped the campaign for recognition of the Yanomami's rights over their own land. Chris Feliciano Arnold, writer and reporter specializing in the Amazon, describes the new threats facing the many indigenous communities in the region. Plus, remembering Petra Kelly - one of the influential founders of the German Green party, tracing the birth of the Taliban, and a survivor of of the Tanker Wars in the 1980s describes the moment his ship was attacked.
Photo:AntΓ΄nio Korihana thΓ«ri, a young man under the effect of the hallucinogenic powder yΓ£koana, Catrimani, 1972-1976. Β© Claudia Andujar
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