For more than five decades, artist and activist, Claudia Andujar, has been photographing and defending the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous groups living in Amazonia. Her collection of ...

People in many cultures have very different ways of observing life-cycle events, such as birth, entry into adulthood, and marriage. However, many of the values and reasons behind these events are very ...

Director Luiz Bolognesi resists patronizing cultural fetishry in his artful documentary portrait of the Amazonian Yanomami community, giving them a narrative voice of their own. “Only in our forest ...

Claudia Andujar, "Collective house near the Catholic mission on the Catrimani River, Roraima state" (1976), mineral pigment print (from infrared film), 35.8 x 55.1 ...

Since 1984, the Fondation Cartier for contemporary art has served as a catalyst for conversations surrounding artistic creation through exhibitions, live performances, and facilitated talks worldwide.

For over 50 years, artist and activist Claudia Andujar has documented daily life of the Yanomami people native to Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Instead of presenting an anthropological lens, which is ...

Napolean A. Chagnon got a rude shock when he first trekked through the Venezuelan rainforest to a Yanomami village in 1964. The aspiring anthropologist expected that the then-obscure Amazonian natives ...