Sebastio Salgado. Amaznia Touch

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For seven years, Sebastio Salgado traveled throughout the Brazilian Amazonian biome photographing the rainforest, the clouds, the rivers, the mountains, and the native people who live there. His book Amaznia shows this deep universe - where the immense power of nature is like no other that can be felt on the planet - and is an invitation to contemplate those human and environmental factors that are crucial to our planet and call for protection of the eco-system and of Indigenous peoples of the region.Together with the French VISIO Foundation, Sebastio Salgado and Llia Wanick Salgado created an exceptional project for blind or visually impaired children and adults: Amaznia Touch, a box with 21 three-dimensional tactile "transcriptions" of 18 photographs and 3 geographical maps from Salgado's book Amaznia. These relief images are produced with brass plates, using an ancient embossing and stamping technique on Pachica paper. For the first time, it is possible to feel the power of Salgado's photographs with the tips of the fingers. The 21 relief plates are accompanied by a brochure presenting the 18 photos and the 3 maps with English, French and Brazilian texts and the access to audio descriptions of the works, which are accessible online by connecting to the website https://culture.fondation-visio.org.

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Sebastio Salgado has spent more than two decades documenting the complex lives of Indigenous Amazonian people as they stand strong in the face of unrelenting colonial forces. * Scientific American *

Author Bio

Llia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s, she began to conceive and design the majority of Sebastio Salgados photography books and all of the exhibitions of his work. Sebastio Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos. In 1994, he and his wife Llia Wanick Salgado created Amazonas Images, which is today their studio, and exclusively handles his work. Salgados photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Sahel. LHomme en dtresse (1986), Other Americas (1986), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), The Scent of a Dream (2015), Kuwait. A Desert on Fire (2016), and Gold (2019). He is a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts and has received numerous international awards, such as the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (2019) and the Praemium Imperiale (2021).