I found a press release for a new exhibit at the University of Michigan Duderstadt Center gallery that features photography of life in the pantanal by photographer Marcin Szczepanski. The exhibit features photography and video of the daily lives of the ribeirinhos (river people) that live in the Pantanal Region.
The photographer spent time in the pantanal in a tiny village hoping to capture images that show how the ribeirinhos there relate to each other and the changing environment and culture. His final goal with the images and video is to create a multimedia ethnography project about the people living in the region to dispel stereotypes and give the people of the pantanal more of a voice.
Check out more of the photos in the exhibit here.
And read an interview with the photographer Marcin Szczepanski here.
-Martell
I loved this blog post, Martell! Looking through all the photographs in this exhibit, it makes me even more excited for what we're going to see in the Pantanal (both in terms of wildlife and in terms of the people we encounter and how their environment has influenced their culture.
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