Over 200 photos, strictly black and white, of the immense Amazonian panoramas, and of the Yanomami, the Kuikuro, the Waura immortalized in their daily chores or posed.
In the dark room of the Salone degli Incanti, the light of the photos shines: it is the universe of "Amazonia", the exhibition that will be inaugurated today by its author, Sebastiao Salgado, curated by his wife, Lelia Wanick, and with original music by Jean Michel Jarre.
The great Brazilian photographer traveled in the Amazon for seven years, living with the 12 immortalized tribes, then made these photos of him a planetary message to show the power of nature but also its fragility and send a warning to mankind about the dangers of the destruction of this ecosystem.
And, supported by illycaffè and Zurich, he launched a series of projects to defend the Amazon.
The exhibition, spread over 2 thousand square metres, has three "ocas" (shacks) at its centre: they reconstruct the indigenous environment.
She has already been to Milan and Rome, and, before that, to the United States and other countries.
Salgado focused on the privileged relationship that Trieste has with Brazil, where it is known.
In the city there was once "the Brazilian Coffee Institute through which Brazil channeled coffee exports and was a commercial base towards Eastern countries".
For the municipal councilor for culture, Giorgio Rossi, the exhibition "questions us, it is a bumpy journey, we must be careful not to touch this or that, not to harm others".
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