Dreaming the Forest

As a photo correspondent working for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, The Guardian, El País, and Der Spiegel, Victor Moriyama spent considerable stretches of time diving in lives of various Indigenous communities in different parts of the Brazilian Amazon. He documented increasing violence against Indigenous nations of Brazil and the biodiversity of the rainforest that they preserve and maintain. He followed agrarian conflicts, land grabbing, illegal mining and logging that lead to devastating deforestation in order to demonstrate how extreme social injustice and uncontrolled globalization lead to genocide and climate change. Dreaming the Forest is a photo exhibition of works of the award-winning Brazilian photojournalist. It presents a large selection of Moriyama’s photo and video works which were shot in different parts of the Amazon rainforest over the course of a few last years. In this video, Victor Moriyama talks about his working processes and the themes that move him in his work.  «My ambition is for my photographs to have an impact on the general public, triggering a reaction so that we can force the authorities and companies to take action and implement proper sustainable forest management. With the knowledge of the forest-dwelling communities and with contributions from science based on the concept of the green economy, we could find satisfactory ways of reversing this situation of climate emergency. The challenge is here. It is time to act!» says Moriyama.