A rare record of the Pirahã Indians made earlier this year, during the coverage of the conflicts in the south of the Amazon, earned the 24-year-old photographer Gabriel Ivan, from Rondônia, the participation in the Festival da Luz, one of the biggest event of international photography and which will take place between August and September 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Gabriel Ivan was one of the 82 photographers chosen to participate in the event.
Gabriel Ivan’s photographs were published by Midia Ninja and by Real Amazon , in its own coverage of the conflicts. A gallery was also published on the site. (Read the series of articles that Amazônia Real produced on the subject).
More than 700 photographers signed up for this edition of Festival da Luz. A pre-selection chose 263 authors. The final selection reached 82 participants in two categories. Gabriel is in the 18 to 25 age category.
The Festival of Light will promote exhibition activities, conferences, workshops, projections, among other activities, on photographs. The event brings together photographers, critics, collectors and publishers. On its website, the festival informs that the objective is to discover emerging talents, consolidate established artists and compare the prevailing trends in the field of artistic photography. It is also a means of exchange between Latin American photographers.
Along with reporter Cley Medeiros, Gabriel Ivan visited the Tenharim-Marmelos Indigenous Land in January of this year. At that time, residents of the municipalities of Humaitá and Apuí and the district of Santo Antônio do Matupi accused the Terem Indians of involvement in the disappearance and death of three men.
Gabriel and Cley went to the Marmelos village and took advantage of the moment to also register the Pirahã Indians, whose territory is on the border of the Teverim reserve.
Gabriel Ivan is a visual arts student and member of the Capta Collective. Another three Brazilians were selected. Gabriel was the only one from the North region.
The Pirahã are an indigenous population with little contact with non-indigenous people. Many of them do not speak Portuguese. Its population is also small. According to 2010 data from the National Health Foundation (Funasa), when it still managed indigenous health , the population was 420 people.
The language spoken by the Pirahã is considered unique, with the use of several unusual resources. Its most famous scholar is the North American Daniel Everett, who lived among the Pirahã in the 1970s as a missionary (without ever being able to evangelize them).
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