Claudia Andujar
The Yanomami Struggle
Exhibition
23.10.21 – 13.02.22
São Paulo–based photographer Claudia Andujar (b. 1931, in Neuchâtel, CH) has dedicated over four decades of her work to the Yanomami, an indigenous community living in the Amazon region in the northern part of Brazil. In the 1970s, when the Yanomami’s local habitat found itself exposed to severe external threats, the photographer turned to activism and from that point on devoted her life and work to campaigning for the community’s legal rights. The exhibition reflects the two indivisible aspects of Andujar’s work: the aesthetic and the political. Her experimental approach to different colour techniques and to classical black-and-white portrait photography is a radical departure from the documentary style of her contemporaries.
Artist
Claudia Andujar
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Location
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44+45
8400 Winterthur
Switzerland
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https://www.fotomuseum.ch