Amazonian Dystopia
Brazil is home to roughly 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s most important climate systems. Yet for centuries, the forest has been exploited for timber, minerals, agriculture, and energy, often at the expense of Indigenous communities and the environment. Today, deforestation driven by logging, mining, cattle ranching, and infrastructure projects continues to push the Amazon toward a critical ecological threshold.
In Amazonian Dystopia, LALO DE ALMEIDA documents the consequences of this ongoing destruction through images of devastated landscapes, polluted rivers, and communities living amid environmental collapse. His photographs reveal a rainforest approaching irreversible change and underscore the global consequences of its continued loss.
