Amazon gallery show up
 “Amazon: A Fragile Balance” is on exhibition at Ock Hee’s Gallery in upstate New York, in Honeoye Falls.The show includes images from my time living with colonists in the Brazilian Amazon who had a plague of mosquitoes on their land and were protesting for help in a roadside, makeshift camp (1991) and my time helping researchers in Peru, trekking in the forest, catching caimans to see what they had for lunch and launching health care and wildlife management programs in remote communities.Images explore the culture, the beauty of the forest and the wild of one of the few places left where nature, not man, is in control. It compels us to explore man’s struggle to co-exist with nature and what impact we have on the environment, and what can be lost.Several images feature communities that are recipients of the work The Friends Project does, including the Amazon Animal Orphanage (care for a baby howler monkey), Nueva Esperanza (window screens, a latrine, safe drinking-water program, shoes for kids) and Belén (school supplies).I’ll post some photos later of the images.
Tags: 1, activism, Amazon, art, backpacking, brazil, charity, forest, friends project, gallery, jungle, monkeys, Peru, photography, photojournalism, photos, Portuguese, rainforest, South America, Spanish, Travel, trekking, villages
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:55 am
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Blogger’s note: Thank you for your comment, Mercedes. I choose the best recipients (group or person) for the donations while I am on my travels, or after careful consideration upon my return, because I do the research and meet the people during the trip. I can’t know the best way to spend the money, where we will have the greatest impact, before I go. Each contributor receives a newsletter that details where every penny went, and why. So far, everyone seems happy with what we’ve done.
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