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At Paris Photo 2026, the galleries Vermelho, Leme, and Marcelo Guarnieri present a project bringing together Claudia Andujar, George Love, Luiz Braga, and Maureen Bisilliat, four photographers of different origins who developed their careers in Brazil and found in the Amazon a territory of inquiry. Produced at different moments and from distinct positions, their works share a refusal of a homogeneous view of the region, linking landscape, ways of life, culture, and territory to experimental forms of image-making.

Color runs through the selection as both language and material. In George Love’s aerial photographs, infrared film transforms the perception of the Amazonian landscape. Luiz Braga explores the encounters between natural and artificial light and the chromatic intensity of everyday life in Belém, Marajó Island, and the riverside communities of Pará. Maureen Bisilliat works from black-and-white photographs of landscapes, architecture, rituals, and ways of life in Northern Brazil, later colored with Ecoline ink and subjected to processes of rephotography. In counterpoint, a group of black- and-white portraits by Claudia Andujar results from her decades-long relationship with the Yanomami people, begun in the 1970s and inseparable from her work in defense of their territory and rights.

These four trajectories interrogate the very conditions of representation of the Amazon. Between document and experimentation, proximity and displacement, their photographs challenge both the conventions of the medium and the imaginaries historically projected onto the region.