Photo by @CristinaMittermeier.
The Xingú River, where I photographed this young Kayapó girl, provides all the necessities for thousands of indigenous people in the Amazon. Sadly, the government of now-impeached President Djilma Rousseff decided to dam this wild river. A true tragedy that motivates me to work hard to try to protect the other rivers where dams have been proposed.
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