Brazil – Amazonia, 2015-2017
After exploring Sao Paulo in a first series, Ludovic Carème leaves the city for the deepest part of the Amazonia from the end of 2015 until the end of 2017. Tenderly looking at the outcasts of the megalopolis, he has, in a way, reversed the course of those he met in the favelas. By going back physically and metaphorically to the source, he tried to understand how the attraction of the big city produces exclusion and marginalisation. He went to see where it begins.
He continues his work as a portraitist and by complementing it with sensual views of the forest, but also with clear observations of deforestation or small still lifes found in interiors, he continues the sensitive development of a documentary photography with a solid classical basis.
Dignified and slightly sad portraits, a luxuriant forest that has come under attack from man, destroyed houses, the double movement that leads the poor to the cities and forbids them to go to the centres all over the world, everything is there, with restraint, with a form of poetry as well. And this evidence, whether the singer likes it or not, misery is not “softer in the sun”. Even less so in today’s Brazil, which is increasingly violent for the marginalized.
Christian Caujolle
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