At Look3, Brazil’s Dams Submerge Tribal Life – The New York Times

Brazil’s Dams Submerge Tribal Life

Among the exhibits at this year’s Look3 festival is Aaron Vincent Elkaim’s project on the consequences of Brazil’s ambitious plans to build dams to propel its economy.

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When Aaron Vincent Elkaim reached the Xingu River basin in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest in 2014, he found a lush and humid green expanse that made him feel as if he were infinitesimally small, living “inside a single giant organism.” The region is one of the world’s most biologically and ethnically diverse areas, home to about 25,000 indigenous people, many of whom live as their ancestors did in close relationship to the land.