Lalo de Almeida:
Amazonian Dystopia: Humankind X Nature

The Amazonian Dystopia is a project that Lalo started more than 12 years ago when he began to document the construction of the Belmonte power plant on the Xingu River with all the environmental and social damage that this work brought to the region, since then it has followed the effects of other infrastructure works and actions that repeat the same model as the Trans-Amazonian highway, the mining, the fires, the devastation of the forest and the systematic annihilation of indigenous peoples alongside all the social chaos that the predatory advance on the forest provides, an occupation which aims only at the uncontrolled extraction of raw materials to the detriment of conservation itself and without taking into account the local populations.

The project won the World Press Photo 2022 Photo Contest in the category "Long-term Projects" and the 2021 W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant Recipient, one of the most renowned internationally, Lalo was the second Brazilian photographer to obtain this distinction alongside Sebastião Salgado who won the award in 1982.