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'Amazon' an Exhibition to Launch at Somerset House in Aid of Sky Rainforest Rescue
By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Sep 14, 2011, 17:26
Renowned documentary photographer Per-Anders Pettersson presents photographs from a recent visit to Acre with actress Gemma Arterton, to support Sky Rainforest Rescue.
Renowned documentary photographer Per-Anders Pettersson presents photographs
from a recent visit to Acre with actress Gemma Arterton, to support Sky Rainforest
Rescue.
(London) Somerset House is proud to present 'AMAZON ', an exhibition in aid
of Sky Rainforest Rescue's campaign to help save one billion trees in the Amazon
rainforest. The exhibition features two award-winning photographers, Sebastião
Salgado and Per-Anders Petterrson - to highlight the plight of the Amazonian
rainforest and the people living within it.
The exhibition will bring together two remarkable, distinct bodies of photography
featuring previously unseen images. It will showcase the efforts of Sky Rainforest
Rescue, a three year partnership between Sky and WWF that began in 2009 and
aims to help save one billion trees in the state of Acre, North-West Brazil.
Legendary Brazilian photographer, Sebastião Salgado will present exclusively
work from his ongoing photographic essay 'Genesis' that began in 2004 and is
due to reach completion in 2012. The images portray landscapes in their most
pristine state, and the communities still living in them, according to ancient
traditions in balance with nature. Through these epic and evocative images,
visitors to the exhibition are taken on a journey through environments, which
remain intact despite the enormous human destruction taking place daily in the
region. Salgado commented: "I relished the opportunity to present some
of my unseen images in the exhibition and highlight the beauty that must be
preserved."
Renowned documentary photographer Per-Anders Pettersson presents photographs
from a recent visit to Acre with actress Gemma Arterton, to support Sky Rainforest
Rescue. These images illustrate the stark reality and level of devastation caused
by deforestation - and gives an insight into the progress being made through
Sky Rainforest Rescue, who closely with the Acre State Government to protect
this precious part of the world. Pettersson commented "the images that
we captured were beautiful and heart breaking in equal measure."
The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of educational talks and
events and will be the first at Somerset House's new East Wing Galleries.
Dates: November 2, 2011 through December 4, 2011
Opening hours: daily from 10am to 6pm
Location: East Wing Galleries, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2
Resources:
http://rainforestrescue.sky.com/
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