Sebastião Salgado - Amazônia

This exhibition at Rome’s MAXXI gallery blew me away.  It featured over 200 black and white photographs by Brazilian photographer and photo-journalist, Sebastião Salgado, which had been curated by his wife and work partner Lélia Wanick Salgado.  It is landscape and portrait photography at its very best, but also powerful advocacy for environmental and cultural diversity.
The images were projected individually onto large plasma screens which gave them a remarkable luminosity through the black and white pixels.  About half of the images featured candid shots of the many Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon – so raw that they made me wince and sad, while keeping me looking.  Sebastião and Lélia must have built enormous trust in the 7 years of the project to have captured those images.
There is a book about the project that is well worth a look and read. A few cellphone snaps of the panels are loaded as extras .. so not my images, much as I would like to claim otherwise!
Life in a large world star city has  immense privileges like being able to see an exhibition like this.