Tag: Aaron Vincent Elkaim

A Portrait of the Amazon on the Brink of Catastrophic Change – Feature Shoot March 29, 2014. A group of boys climb a tree on the Xingu River by the city of Altamira, Para State, Brazil. Major areas of the city have been permanently… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/11/a-portrait-of-the-amazon-on-the-brink-of-catastrophic-change/ In his series, Where the River Runs…

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. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/at-look3-brazils-dams-submerging-tribal-life/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0 When Aaron Vincent Elkaim reached the Xingu River basin in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest in 2014, he found a…

‘Sleeping with the Devil:’ Photos Capture a Struggle Between Big Oil and the Native Populations of Alberta – Feature Shoot For Sleeping with the Devil, photographer Aaron Vincent Elkaim traces the cultural and environmental conflicts wrought by major oil companies along the landscape of Northern Alberta and the Athabasca River, along which Native American communities…

The Last Great Race on Earth via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/04/slide-show-the-iditarod-the-last-great-race-on-earth.html#slide_ss_0=1 “Let me start by saying that I am not much of a sports fan,” the Toronto-based photographer Aaron Vincent Elkaim told me while recounting his experience photographing the thousand-and-forty-nine-mile race across Alaska, for Ben McGrath’s piece about the Iditarod, the self-proclaimed “last great race…