Despite living in southeastern Brazil, I travel extensively to the Brazilian Legal Amazon region. This is a culturally heterogeneous territory, where many people from different backgrounds live. Documenting the action of non-governmental organizations in the region since 2005, I met many realities in the largest tropical forest on the planet: a place where nature determines the rules of human existence.
Rearranging small visual narratives, I learned to see all the complexity of those territories: they are small fragments where the recent human occupation of the Brazilian Amazon and the many ways of using nature meet. This is a quest to visually weave part of the many realities that I have known in the States of Pará, Amazonas, Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Acre and Amapá, all of which form the North Region of the country.
They are small details and everyday scenes that are repeated along the rivers and in remote communities, far from urban centers, where the culture of riverside, indigenous and quilombo residents build the multiple amazonias present in the Brazilian territory. It is a place made of the strength and struggle of the people who live there to maintain the sustainability of the use of the forest and its resources.
This is not a commissioned project: they are farewells, trips and meetings that take place over days, sometimes months. They are streets that become rivers. They are hugs that become a forest.
