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Adelia Clavien | June 16–27 2022

ADELIA CLAVIEN

solo Exhibition

On view: June 16–27 2022
4 W 43rd St. #416, New York, NY 10036

Having worked all her life with different mediums and disciplines, Adelia Clavien embraces the polymath tradition. From abstract representation to the corporeal beauty of human figures, Clavien’s work encompasses a wide breath of styles.

While currently being based in Switzerland, the artist, was born in Portugal but has been living in Switzerland since 1981 where she lived in Valais and St Gall, exploring both paintings with different mediums such acrylic, charcoal, and epoxy, while later starting a career in photography. Self-educated, Adelia Clavien speaks mutiple languages, plays several music instruments, is adaptive to new technology, and is a naturally open person. Her works have seen the spotlight in Dubai, Lisbon, São Paulo, Amsterdam, Venice and all over Switzerland. Such a series that has gained prominence is that coming from her inspiration from film actresses such as Gina Lollobrigida, Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn, among others. Working with a series of different mediums, Clavien diffuses these materials, creating layers of overlapping mediums to enhance a different perspective on these women, both from a conceptual and technical perspective. The artist has also done a series of male representations as well, including stars like Freddie Mercury, Bob Marley, Sean Connery, Jim Morrison, among others. The artist has in recent years been dedicating more time to promoting her works as well as exploring her interest in abstraction and pop art featuring the iconic men and women which inspire her.

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Curator by Alcinda Saphira
Production: Diego Ponce / Albert Valente / Liz Carvalho
Graphic Design: Camila Crivelenti

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NEOCON – CHICAGO | Jun 13–15 2022

NEOCON | NTFs For Interior Design

June 13–15, 2022

Saphira & Ventura Present a Look at the Future of Art in Public Spaces as Part of Interior and Sources Curated Space at NeoCon.

Saphira & Ventura is recognized as a source and leading authority on the interface between design and digital manifestations of art. The NFT lounge in the Interior and Sources 3,000 square foot showroom at NeoCon is certain to be a highlight for attendees. Thousands of architects and interior designers will descend on the three-day event in Chicago from June 13 – 15.

“We are focused on the strengths and opportunities for change that NFTs (nonfungible tokens) represent,” says Alcinda Saphira, president of the forward-thinking metaverse company and its bricks and mortar art gallery, located in midtown Manhattan. “This is truly one of the most exciting times in the history of art. We are very happy to work with I&S.”

Louis Ventura, the company’s CEO adds, “This is the biggest transformation in visual storytelling since the first cave paintings, or since pigments were mixed oils. Art may be the last element selected when designing public spaces. But, often, it’s the takeaway. It’s what people remember when they get home.”

The curator of Trend Futures, the I&S showroom at NeoCon, Stacy Garcia chose Saphira and Ventura to anchor the NFT lounge. A conversation with the two principals of the namesake company makes it clear why they are the go-to choice to help architects and designers realize the immense and inevitable change and potential that NFTs represent.

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Most current attention is focused on NFTs as part of the blockchain casino that began with Bitcoin and other virtual monetary tokens. NFT movements like Bored Ape Yacht Club or CryptoPunks are driven by youthful enthusiasm more than aesthetics. Cartoon-y vignettes may have opened a virtual door to 19-year-olds who fancy themselves as artists; but the creations are suitable as gifs and memes or to hang on the walls of virtual houses in the metaverse. They have little, if anything, to do with fine art.

“The real potential of NFTs for art is only beginning to be explored,” says Louis Ventura. “Nonfungible tokens are coded digits stored on the blockchain. Basically, that means they cannot be changed. Artworks can be tracked and traced and forgery – such as we see with a lot of high-end contemporary two-dimensional paintings – is being eliminated. However, what can and will change is the way in which NFT artworks are presented. Immersive art experiences and holographic displays are part of this trend. We may wonder what Van Gogh would have thought about crowds of people being able to walk through his art. But the real question is what are the possibilities when truly talented fine artists are also digital natives? That’s what Saphira & Ventura is dedicated to exploring with our amazing roster of contemporary artists.”

Alcinda Saphira adds, “We are where technology meets beauty in public and commercial spaces. That’s what we will help designers to understand when they visit us in the NFT lounge in the I&S showroom. We recognize our responsibility to present NeoCon attendees with art and opportunities to lead the way in this exciting present and into an amazing future.”

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The I&S showroom is located in a suite on the 10th floor of NeoCon
The Mart, 222 Merchandise Mart, Chicago IL

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Ostap Patyk & Roksolana Patyk | Jun 1–17 2022

OSTAP PATYK / ROKSOLANA PATYK

On view: Jun 1–17 2022
4 W 43rd St. #416, New York, NY 10036

From their strong commitment to art to an ongoing journey to around the world, Ostap and Roksolana Patyk have worked on various paintings and design in their long and committed career. Originally from Ukraine, they explore a variety of themes ranging from landscape to still life.

These works will be curated by Alcinda Saphira and presented at Saphira & Ventura Gallery and will have its opening on June 01 on 4 W 43rd st. #416 New York, NY. New York, NY and will terminate on June 12, 2022.

The works of Ostap and Roksolana Patyk delve into a recapturing the traditional technique and aesthetic of figurative academicism. Influenced by Roman Selskyi but also by their engaging travels throughout many nations. The two artists hail from the city of Lviv in west Ukraine (former Lemberg) where they studied at the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Ostap Patyk creates his work in formalistic compositions based on national character and traditions, whether in the form of portraits, still lifes, landscapes, among others. The artist began his career under his father, Volodymyr Patyk, an iconic painter in Ukraine’s history of modern art.

Growing up in an artistic home and in the vibrant city of Lviv motivated Ostap to continue his father’s trade and the artist continued furnishing paintings in his own style. Roksolana Patyk, has dedicated her career to working with graphics. She has exhibited her work in Ukrainian and international exhibitions. They include a diverse appreciation of aesthetic influences ranging from modernism, art deco, to an Easter Egg ornamentalism. Weaving these elements together, the artist blends the folk traditions of Ukraine’s national model as well as a creative experimentation on her part. She has taken part in symposiums, conferences, and seminars, where she has played a role in furthering interest in such graphic works and design.

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Curator by Alcinda Saphira
Production: Diego Ponce / Albert Valente / Liz Carvalho
Graphic Design: Camila Crivelenti

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Contemporary Concept | May 25–30 2022

CONTEMPORARY CONCEPT

Collective Exhibition

On view: May 25–30, 2022
4 W 43rd St. #416, New York, NY 10036

Both evoking and engaging, the midtown exhibition Contemporary Concept shines light on a collection of works by six contemporary artists under the theme of conceptual art that has dominated a great part of our community.

Whether in Miami or Hong Kong, we find conceptual pieces to be the cornerstone of the contemporary art scene. Exploring this approach, curator Alcinda Saphira provides guests at Saphira & Ventura Gallery, with the opportunity to interact and communicate on the diverse pieces that make up the exhibition.

Including concepts in works of art has been a tradition dating back centuries, when artists would use their medium to present elements of transcendence, philosophy, and spirituality. The works transporting a particular concept for the viewer to medidate on. This exhibition will feature such works and one example is that of Katy Le Blanc, an artist whose dedication to environemental activism has been accentuated in her mixed-media works showcasing the detriment human activity has created in modern times to our ecosystem. The artist has had a long career spanning both western and eastern traditions, encompassing various symbols in her works.

The works of Guil Calil, on the other hand, show the artist’s dedication to lyrical abstract beauty in terms of texture, his The Drams and Human Harshness series has had its exposure in vastly different regions ranging from the Emirates to Brazil. While Regula Bill, a figurative artist, creates her works with no conscious design plan, therefore establishing a work of art open to complete interpretation of the viewer. The artist draws her inspiration from figures, landscapes, and other representations which make their way into unique forms under the artist’s natural flow of execution.

Gerrit Oppelland-Hampel, an artist fascinated by the sensuality of color finds value within the work itself and has worked on a variety of paintings, both in her studio in Spain and Germany, emphasizing a playful juxtapositions and dialogue between shades. Lonell Nellessen, an artist inspired by the old masters, seeks to continue bringing beauty into the lives of others. Working in a single medium, Nellessen captures the grace of animals and landscapes and elevate them to conceptual symbols of beauty. Adelia Clavien, a multimedia artist will having have her iconic women series displayed as highlighting the inspiring concept the figures evoke.

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Curator by Alcinda Saphira
Production: Diego Ponce / Albert Valente / Liz Carvalho
Graphic Design: Camila Crivelenti

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Humberto Hermeto | May 14–21 2022

HUMBERTO HERMETO

Solo Exhibition

On view: May 14 – 21 2022
4 W 43rd St. #416, New York, NY 10036

Visual art that never ceases to puzzle and surprise its multitude of spectators, this approach has been the case with multi-disciplinary artist, Humberto Hermeto, whose career in art, design, and architecture has won him several great acclaims. The artist has been in the gallery’s collection since 2019 and for the first time, residents and visitors of New York will be able to attend his solo exhibition.

Held at Saphira & Ventura Gallery, curator Alcinda Saphira accentuates the diverse elements of Humberto’s work, highlighting his work with acrylic on canvas but also with unconventional methods such as nails. 

The particular approach that lies behind Hermeto’s style would be his dedication to precision, whether in creating two dimensional works of art, mixed-media works or the blueprints of a residential building, Hermeto’s delicate crafting of lines and perspective create a gentle flow by which the viewer can see the works in boundless forms. His work with nails include figures such as Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, and Salvador Dali. Mixing different mediums on his abstract paintings, Hermeto, distinguishes what is modern and what is contemporary by his characteristic use of words and statements in his paintings as well as the application of various mediums such as gold leaf. His purely abstract works have also been appreciated for their union as an abstract installation, each piece being an integral part of a whole.

Likewise is the case with his architectural works, residential homes encompassing the beauty of the local surroundings, such as his projects in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The use of empty space, linear and nonlinear articulate themselves in a postmodern aesthetic, engaging the viewer with different perspectives and lines. Hermeto has dedicated himself also to the market of non-fungible tokens, (NFT) and since 2019, exhibited his different works in Paris, New York, and Miami.

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Curator by Alcinda Saphira
Production: Diego Ponce / Albert Valente / Liz Carvalho
Graphic Design: Camila Crivelenti

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NYICAS at Venice Architecture Biennial 2021

NYICAS at Venice Architecture Biennial 2021 exhibition — “Time Space Existence”

Cristina Côrtes, Danielle Garcia and Rayra Lira;
Ostap Patyk;
Tufi Mousse;
Juca Maximo;
Adriana Mavignier.

Saphira & Ventura Art Design Architecture
New York International Contemporary Art Society (NYICAS)
European Cultural Centre (ECC)
Venice Architecture Biennial 2021

Innovative Bus Shelter for Smart Cities

Cristina Côrtes, Danielle Garcia and Rayra Lira.

Have you ever wondered how great the number of bus shelters in a megalopolis is? And how these shelters can become multifunctional urban facilities and contribute to more sustainable and resilient cities? Thousands of these small spaces are distributed throughout cities, often underused, uncomfortable, and not properly performing their functions towards the benefit of the population. We believe it is time to repurpose these bus shelters by transforming them into multifunctional urban equipment which will become part of an integrated solution for cities and will be able to positively contribute to the environment and the well-being of its users – passengers and pedestrians alike.

That is why we developed a project that links the beauty of contemporary design with high technology and, above all, sustainability. It comprises of vegetation coverage to reduce the heat island effect; a rain garden for flood prevention; a led panel integrated with IoT (Internet of Things) technology for advertising; a bike rack for the integration of transportation; organic solar panels for lighting and recharging cell phones; as well as a battery collection post.

Our potential partners are public managers, along with companies specializing in OOH (out-of-home) marketing.
We are convinced that companies adept to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) practices will ensure to advertise on urban equipment with such distinguishment. There will be millions of users associating these respective advertising brands with sustainable practices.

Does this make sense for your city or company? Then invest in our project! Have your company’s name directly linked to the future of smart and sustainable cities!

SEA AND FISH

Ostap Patyk exhibits an emotional reflection of reality which focuses on the beauty of the world. Patyk’s projects are composed of mosaic murals. The basis of Patyk’s composition is the transformation of marine flora and fauna in a modern style.

Sea and Fish shows two main directions: one is an emotional reflection of reality with a focus on the beauty of the world, and the other is a philosophical rethinking of the world. The basis of Patyk’s composition is the transformation of marine flora and fauna in a modern style.

Patyk was born on 6 November, 1964 in Lviv, Ukraine. Patyk has been working in the field of private and public interior design. The most famous design projects: Restaurant “Beijing”, Ternopil; Club “Yucatan” Lviv; projects and decoration of more than 20 private residential complexes.

SCHOOL FOR AUTISTIC TEENAGERS

Tufi Mousse presents a School for Autistic Teenagers, where architecture and aesthetic appeal become fundamental to generate the sensory environment and raise the intuitive sense of children with special needs. This project shows new architectural forms for autistic children.

DUALITY ART DIVISORY

Juca Maximo seeks to promote the innovative concept of the world’s first art Duality Art Divisory, where artworks are an integral part of the environment.

GARDEN GALLERY

The project by the landscape architect, Adriana Mavignier, called “Garden Gallery”, is not just a garden space, but a plaza, with a thematic garden, impregnated with deeper meanings and symbols, a path in the mind and conscience.

The creation of a space where nature mixes with art, creating an engaging and interactive project.

Within the design and concept of the project, beautiful sculptures mirror the beauty of nature and its surroundings, creating an inspiring harmony. Some others, created with reuse wood, from burning and deforestation, raise awareness of environmental preservation. Others, created with raw materials such as metals, steel and marble, when integrated with the lightness of the garden lighting, incredibly remove these materials softness, leading the observer to become aware of the passage of time and human impermanence.

The design of objects, benches and lamps complement and harmonize the project, blending into the entire landscape. These pieces refer to the creativity of light forms, showing that the mind needs to be nourished and cared for, to flourish constantly.

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Sharing the Table

Sharing the Table

Graziele de Souza

Saphira & Ventura Art Design Architecture
New York International Contemporary Art Society (NYICAS)
European Cultural Centre (ECC)
Venice Architecture Biennial 2021

Individualism is on the rise. People are connected with the digital world and forget that the best of life is in lively shared experiences. The project, “Sharing the Table” by Graziele de Souza, draws attention to the digital age in which we live, rescuing our essence and recognizing that we can be present in other people’s lives.

In the same way that the table object is complemented with chairs, each person feels complimented when they share existence around them. As a result, de Souza is able to respond to the theme “TIME SPACE EXISTENCE” while emphasizing what we share, what we have, and who we are.

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Ephemeral Installation

Ephemeral Installation

Anna Persia – Interior Designer

Saphira & Ventura Art Design Architecture
New York International Contemporary Art Society (NYICAS)
European Cultural Centre (ECC)
Venice Architecture Biennial 2021

Interior designer Anna Persia’s proposal for the TIME SPACE EXISTENCE theme is Ephemeral Installation about creating a sensory path, space for human relationships. Anna believes that the space in which one lives contributes to one’s feeling of well-being.

Humans live tied to material and spaces that are invented to meet their needs, from the simplest to the most complex demands. Her project enables visitors to connect with the world around them through their senses.

People live in a technological world which does not allow them to profoundly connect with the space and others around them.

Anna Persia Bastos

Interior Designer since 2011, Ana Persia Bastos founded the company Studio Persia Interiores, in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil. Her first training comes from Psychology and Education, where she holds the title of Clinical / School Psychopedagogue and Teacher, creating a framework to act more intensively in projects aimed at the well-being and comfort of people.

Graduated from Instituto Marangoni Milano, The School of Design, in Interior Design For Professionals. Her curriculum includes a specialization in Interior Design: setting and space production; Master in Diversity and Inclusion, with research focused on environmental comfort in inclusion spaces, from Universidade Federal Fluminense; technician in Interior Design, by the Brazilian Institute of Interior Design – IBDI. Her training is still in full development, improving today at the European Design Institute – IED in the Space Design course – MADEIN methodology.

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Museum of Music & Colors

Museum of Music & Colors

Howard Zi Hao Qiu and Alan Ritchie

Saphira & Ventura Art Design Architecture
New York International Contemporary Art Society (NYICAS)
European Cultural Centre (ECC)
Venice Architecture Biennial 2021

“Color is light, time and space. Color is not the past, it is a continuous present.”

Howard Qiu’s painting music was inspired by the works and writings of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. It is based on a system in which the rhythm, melody and harmony of music are expressed through textures, colors and forms found in painting. He delves into the sensory commonalities between visual art and music by exploring the visual and auditory, organically linking the two senses, thereby expanding human perception in color, melody and rhythm. He has devised a unique coding system that he uses to embed a melody into each of his paintings.

His symphonies of color convey images, creative thoughts and emotions, but ultimately they are meant to inspire, connect humanity and elevate the human spirit in a universal, melodic and magical way.

Alan Ritchie, the design principal of PJ>AR Architects, P.C. worked with the iconic architect Philip Johnson for over 25 years. Johnson retired in 2004, and under Alan’s leadership, the firm has continued to maintain his legacy in creating projects that are both functional and aesthetically innovative. Alan views architecture as an art form cleverly crafting geometrical shapes and sculptural forms to create buildings into habitable sculptures; each building respectful of scale, proportion and meticulous detail in its appearance.

Based on Alan Ritchie’s thinking of “buildings as sculpture for living” and Howard Qiu’s painting music idea, they are collaborating to create a children’s museum that will feature Howard’s musical paintings which also use architectural forms and shapes. These paintings will be displayed in designated areas inside the museum enabling visitors to experience various musical genres. His painting music concept will also be utilized on the exterior of this colorful cutting edge complex.

The project offers children as well as adults a novel and simple way to learn, compose and interpret music in a place where painting music sets the tone for a harmonious and melodious co-existence.

East China Normal University (ECNU), founded in 1951, is one of China’s top research universities and is renowned for its teacher training and high level research in both basic and applied sciences.

In 2017, ECNU was selected into Class A of the World First Class University and First Class Academic Discipline Construction Program, an education initiative of the Ministry of Education aimed at developing elite Chinese universities into world class institutions by 2050.

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Bienal AMA+ZÔNIA 2022

BIENAL AMA+ZÔNIA

at Venice Architecture Biennial 2021

Saphira & Ventura Art Design Architecture
New York International Contemporary Art Society (NYICAS)
European Cultural Centre (ECC)
Venice Architecture Biennial 2021

Preview of the 1st AMA + ZÔNIA 2022 Biennial will be presented at Venice Architecture Biennial 2021 exhibition — “Time Space Existence”

Patricia O’Reilly (Mirante do Gavião);
Meireles Junior (Amazon Mangroves);
Alexandre Mavignier (Giant Women);
Alexandre Mavignier (Amazon Tears);
Christoph Diewald (Ribeirinhos Photos);
Michael Schucht (Flying Rivers documentary)

Biennial AMA+ZÔNIA 2022, the first international biennial in the Amazon, will bring together national and international artists, designers and architects, in a forum for technical and scientific exchange. The event will include Brazilian and international artists, scientists, universities, civil society and indigenous organizations, as well as representatives of governments and national and international bodies that support the sustainability of the region.

The Amazon Biennial will create awareness on environmental issues as a basis for planetary survival.

Mirante do Gavião (Amazon Lodge)

Patricia O’Reilly and Armando Prieto, from Atelier O’R, are the creators of the architectural project “Mirante do Gavião Amazon Lodge” — A project that integrates community, sustainability, architecture & design.

Located in Novo Airão, distant 200 km from Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, has the panoramic view of the Black River facing the National Park of Anavilhanas. The idea was to develop an inspiring project that integrated community, sustainability, architecture and design, giving the community the opportunity to develop new talents, to increase local income, to promote social inclusion, to respect the environment and to integrate architecture interchange and nature. The cultural and the appreciation of local people has reached a place of extreme importance in the lives of the visiting public and the community, bringing the understanding of the value of the miscegenation of human beings in their greater capacity of learning.

Climatic, ventilation and sunshine studies were done to achieve the best bioclimatic design, seeking thermal comfort, cross ventilation, chimney effect for hot air scape, natural lighting and accessibility.

Lack of local capacity led to huge unemployment and low quality of life. The technology to build boats with wood, no longer allowed, was replaced by the technique of aluminum construction, not yet mastered. The arrival of the “Mirante do Gavião Amazon Lodge” promoted a paradigm shift through the construction of the Lodge as an inverted boat, merging with the local needs and offering new possibilities of income generation, development of new talents, respect and social justice, valuing their grassroots.

GIANT WOMEN

Alexandre Mavignier, shows the series Giant Women (“Mulheres Gigantes”), inspired by the extinction of the Ycamiabas Indian tribe, warrior giants, women without men whose history gave rise to the name Amazonas for the forest, river and Brazilian state, when in 1546 they massacred the Spanish fleet of Francisco Orellana.

The artist Alexandre Mavignier named CARBOGRAPHIA, the technique in which he uses earth and coals that collects Amazonian forest fires, to make his paints (protagonists) with which he paints on supports that he reconstructs reusing solid urban waste (antagonists).

Together, residues of burning life and urban rubble transformed into art, build the narrative of a transformative, surviving hope. The artist enshrines that the real work is what it is not, it is what it cannot fully say, it is what the image itself will never say about itself.

“The urgency of the presence of the other in art is urgent, it is of being, it is what builds and transforms.”
— Alexandre Mavignier

Amazon Tears (Lágrimas Amazônidas)

Alexandre Mavignier also presents Amazon Tears.

Mimetizing the flying rivers of the Amazon, a ceiling installation constructed with pieces of coals harvested from Amazonian ashes denouncing the violence of people against nature and themselves. It poses the idea that we are all involved together, whether we like it or not.

This new technique, named by the artist, CARBOGRAPHIA, uses ash residues of burned life to draw pictures and create other art forms.

Alexandre Mavignier, is a multidisciplinary artist. Whether transmuting lands from all over the planet to produce natural pigments for his canvasses and sculptures, or collecting urban demolition and construction waste that, micronized and transformed into paint, bring the tons of the city to his masterpieces’ reality, or even reusing waste from a life on fire, like the 994 coals from the Amazon rainforest used in the Amazon Tears work, the artist Alexandre Mavignier presents the themes related to his creations with enormous depth.

MANGUEZAIS RAÍZES MARANHENSES

Meirelles Junior, designer and photographer of the book “MANGUEZAIS RAÍZES MARANHENSES”, postulates that the area of mangroves in Maranhão state, produces more than 95% of the food that man catches from the coastal sea areas of the Amazon.

It’s vital for the ecosystem’s survival and the subsistence of the fishing communities that live there. His work shows the importance of mangroves as an exporter of organic matter to the estuary, contributing to primary productivity in the coastal zone.

The mangrove vegetation serves to fix the lands, thus preventing erosion and at the same time stabilizing the coast.

THE FLYING RIVERS

Michael Schucht, producer of the documentary “The Flying Rivers” focuses on the way the Amazon forest cools the earth.

A movement of large quantities of water vapor is transported in the atmosphere from the Amazon Basin to other parts of the planet. Without forest, no water; this gigantic water pump can no longer exist without the Amazon.

RIBEIRINHOS

Chris Diewald presents a series of photos of people living on the riverbanks in the Amazon Rain Forest. These people are called Ribeirinhos.

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