Portrait of chief Tigé Pataxo of the indigenous people; Pataxo in Bahia, Brazil. A special encounter with a special person. Tige Pataxo sees himself as protector of the forest and is also politically active in brazil to protect the forest from lumberjacks and ranchers who want to take it.
My motivation is to use photography to colour the world just a little bit more beautifully than it is. Everybody becomes happy with a beautiful picture of themselves, others or a beautiful environment and the image that is sketched with photography has become invaluable in our modern visual culture... Read more…