I consider myself privileged in life and for several reasons, one of them being that as a professor and researcher in the environmental area at the university, I had almost countless chances to travel and discover the Brazilian Amazon region for several decades.
The photos I share today are from a series I called “Children of the Amazon” and were taken on analog (color slides or negatives) several decades ago. But here they are: alive as never before.
I have many questions that fill my mind: where and how are these “children”? Will they still live in the same places? Were they married or not? How many children will they have had? Will they be happy people? For me I only have the memories of those happy days for me and those beautiful and happy children…












