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His work has been featured in a number of publications, including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, National Geographic, and Newsweek. 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The winning photos depict life in the Amazon rainforest, and provide a glimpse into the lives of those who call it home.","plain","Series StatementA photo essay by Brazilian photographer Cassio Pereira has won third prize in the world press photo 2023 Photo Contest. The winning photos depict life in the Amazon rainforest, and provide a glimpse into the lives of those who call it home.This is the second time that Cassio has won a world press photo award. In 2020, he won first prize in the same contest for his series \"The Hunter and The Hunted\", which documented the conflict between indigenous people and illegal miners in Brazil's Amazon rainforest.We congratulate Cassio Pereira on his third prize win in the world press photo 2023 Photo Contest, and we look forward to seeing more of his work in the future.The winning photo essay by Brazilian photographer Cassio Pereira depicts life in the Amazon rainforest, and provides a glimpse into the lives of those who call it home. The photos offer a rare insight into the day-to-day reality of living in one of the world's most remote and biodiverse regions.Cassio's work focuses on social and environmental issues in Latin America, and his series \"The Hunter and The Hunted\" won first prize in the same contest back in 2020. This latest photo essay gives us an even more intimate look at life in the Amazon, highlighting both the beauty and challenges of this unique place.We hope that these amazing images will help to raise awareness about the importance of preserving this vital ecosystem, not just for its inhabitants but for all of us – after all, we are all connected to this magical place.Cassio Pereira is a freelance photographer based in São Paulo, Brazil. His work has been featured in a number of publications, including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, National Geographic, and Newsweek. This is the second time that Cassio has won a world press photo award – we congratulate him on his third prize win and look forward to seeing more of his stunning work in the future!\nVisual description of the 6 photos:The winning photo essay by Brazilian photographer Cassio Pereira comprises six photos that provide a glimpse into the lives of those who call the Amazon rainforest home. The first image in the series shows a young boy paddling a canoe downriver, with lush green foliage towering overhead. The second photo depicts two women working together to haul in a net full of fish, while the third captures an elderly man tending to his plants. In the fourth photo, we see children playing games near their homes made from materials scavenged from the forest floor. And in the fifth and sixth images, we witness some of the many animals that make their home in this unique environment – including snakes, monkeys and butterflies.\nThese stunning photos offer a rare insight into the day-to-day reality of living in one of the world's most remote and biodiverse regions, and provide an important reminder of the importance of preserving this vital ecosystem.Image CaptionsPhoto 1imagePhoto 2imagePhoto 3imagePhoto 4imagePhoto 5imagePhoto 6image","html","

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A photo essay by Brazilian photographer Cassio Pereira has won third prize in the world press photo 2023 Photo Contest. The winning photos depict life in the Amazon rainforest, and provide a glimpse into the lives of those who call it home.

This is the second time that Cassio has won a world press photo award. In 2020, he won first prize in the same contest for his series \"The Hunter and The Hunted\", which documented the conflict between indigenous people and illegal miners in Brazil's Amazon rainforest.

We congratulate Cassio Pereira on his third prize win in the world press photo 2023 Photo Contest, and we look forward to seeing more of his work in the future.

The winning photo essay by Brazilian photographer Cassio Pereira depicts life in the Amazon rainforest, and provides a glimpse into the lives of those who call it home. The photos offer a rare insight into the day-to-day reality of living in one of the world's most remote and biodiverse regions.

Cassio's work focuses on social and environmental issues in Latin America, and his series \"The Hunter and The Hunted\" won first prize in the same contest back in 2020. This latest photo essay gives us an even more intimate look at life in the Amazon, highlighting both the beauty and challenges of this unique place.

We hope that these amazing images will help to raise awareness about the importance of preserving this vital ecosystem, not just for its inhabitants but for all of us – after all, we are all connected to this magical place.

Cassio Pereira is a freelance photographer based in São Paulo, Brazil. His work has been featured in a number of publications, including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, National Geographic, and Newsweek. This is the second time that Cassio has won a world press photo award – we congratulate him on his third prize win and look forward to seeing more of his stunning work in the future!\nVisual description of the 6 photos:

The winning photo essay by Brazilian photographer Cassio Pereira comprises six photos that provide a glimpse into the lives of those who call the Amazon rainforest home. The first image in the series shows a young boy paddling a canoe downriver, with lush green foliage towering overhead. The second photo depicts two women working together to haul in a net full of fish, while the third captures an elderly man tending to his plants. In the fourth photo, we see children playing games near their homes made from materials scavenged from the forest floor. And in the fifth and sixth images, we witness some of the many animals that make their home in this unique environment – including snakes, monkeys and butterflies.\nThese stunning photos offer a rare insight into the day-to-day reality of living in one of the world's most remote and biodiverse regions, and provide an important reminder of the importance of preserving this vital ecosystem.

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Born in a small riverine community near Manaus, his intimate knowledge of the region and fluency in Portuguese and four indigenous languages have earned him unprecedented trust among traditional communities. His work centers on the intersection of indigenous wisdom and environmental change, capturing both the resilience and vulnerability of Amazon peoples. Nascimento's approach combines deep cultural respect with technical mastery, creating images that speak to both local experience and global consciousness. 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For the indigenous and riverine communities of the Amazon Basin, 2024 marks not just another drought, but a crossing into uncharted territory where even ancestral knowledge must adapt to conditions beyond historical memory.","The Rio Negro's water level drops lower each day, exposing ancient rocks that bear petroglyphs unseen for generations. For the indigenous and riverine communities of the Amazon Basin, 2024 marks not just another drought, but a crossing into uncharted territory where even ancestral knowledge must adapt to conditions beyond historical memory.Sebastião Nascimento's documentation spans twelve communities across the western Amazon, capturing how traditional peoples navigate environmental collapse while maintaining cultural identity. His access, built over decades of respectful engagement, reveals intimate moments of adaptation: elders teaching children to read a transformed river, healers adjusting medicinal practices to stressed ecosystems, and communities combining traditional knowledge with new technologies to survive.The drought has transformed the Amazon's waterways from highways into barriers. Communities once connected by rivers find themselves isolated, their economies disrupted, their food security threatened. Yet Nascimento's images reveal not victims but knowledge holders – people whose understanding of forest and river cycles positions them as essential voices in climate adaptation. His photographs document the transfer of this knowledge across generations, even as the environment that shaped it transforms beyond recognition.What emerges is a story of resilience tested by unprecedented change. Traditional navigation markers sit high above waterlines. Sacred sites have become dusty depressions. Fish have retreated to depths that traditional gear cannot reach. Yet communities persist, their cultural practices evolving to meet new realities while maintaining connections to land and water that define their identity. This is documentation of frontline climate experience – where abstract global processes manifest as daily survival challenges met with wisdom accumulated over millennia.Photographer BioBorn in 1971 in a small community along the Rio Solimões, Sebastião Nascimento learned photography from missionaries but found his vision in his grandmother's stories of river life. She taught him that images, like rivers, carry memory – a philosophy that shapes his documentary practice. After studying visual communications in Manaus, he returned to the Amazon interior, choosing community documentation over commercial success.His breakthrough came through patient relationship building, spending months in communities before ever lifting a camera. This approach earned trust that opened doors closed to outside observers. His work documenting traditional ecological knowledge has appeared in National Geographic, but he measures success by community response rather than international recognition. \"If the people I photograph don't see truth in the images, I have failed,\" he says. This series represents 18 months of documentation across the 2023-2024 drought cycle, witnessing environmental conditions that push both ecosystems and human adaptation to their limits.Image CaptionsTraditional NavigationPhoto 1: Traditional NavigationAn elder from the Tikuna community guides his grandson through the exposed bed of the Rio Negro near São Gabriel da Cachoeira, October 2024. The rocks they walk past, normally 5 meters underwater, bear ancestral markings that haven't been visible in living memory. \"These stones are teaching us new lessons,\" the elder explains, pointing out navigation markers his own grandfather once showed him during a lesser drought 60 years ago.Sacred WatersPhoto 2: Sacred WatersMembers of the Baré community perform a water blessing ceremony at Cachoeira do Tarumã, November 2024. The sacred site, usually a thundering waterfall, has reduced to a single stream feeding a shallow pool. Despite the transformation, the community maintains their spiritual practices, adapting ceremonies to honor water's presence rather than abundance. The ritual now includes prayers for the water's return.Forest MedicinePhoto 3: Forest MedicineDona Maria, a respected pajé (healer) of mixed Tukano and caboclo heritage, collects medicinal plants in the drought-stressed forest near her community, September 2024. Many traditional medicine plants have become scarce or altered their properties due to water stress. She adapts her practice, learning which substitutes work and teaching younger healers to recognize plants in their drought-altered states.Children of Two WorldsPhoto 4: Children of Two WorldsIndigenous youth from the multi-ethnic community of Novo Airão learn to use GPS devices while elders teach traditional river navigation, October 2024. The drought has made traditional knowledge more critical than ever, but communities recognize that survival requires bridging ancestral wisdom with modern tools. The children will need both to navigate their transformed homeland.Community CouncilPhoto 5: Community CouncilA gathering in the Dessana community of Umari Norte discusses water management strategies, November 2024. The meeting combines traditional leadership structures with input from younger members who bring scientific data about climate patterns. Together, they develop plans that honor customary resource management while addressing unprecedented scarcity.Adaptation ArchitecturePhoto 6: Adaptation ArchitectureCommunity members in São João do Tupé construct an elevated water storage system, December 2024. The design adapts traditional stilt architecture to create gravity-fed distribution, combining indigenous engineering knowledge with materials provided by NGO partners. The project represents community-driven adaptation that respects cultural aesthetics while meeting new environmental challenges.River MemoryPhoto 7: River MemorySeu João, keeper of river stories for the Baniwa people, shares navigation tales with children at a dried section of the Rio Içana, November 2024. The riverbed, transformed into a sandy expanse, becomes a classroom where oral tradition meets visible evidence of change. His stories now include the time when rivers ran dry, ensuring this knowledge enters the collective memory.Image PromptsPhoto 1 - Traditional Navigation\nAn elderly indigenous man with deeply weathered brown skin wearing simple cotton clothing guides a young boy across exposed riverbed rocks covered in ancient petroglyphs, Rio Negro Brazil, wide-angle environmental portrait at golden hour, shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 24mm f/8 lens, warm natural lighting highlighting the texture of exposed stones and creating long shadows, compositional leading lines formed by the dry riverbed channel, earthy browns and ochres with touches of remaining green vegetation on distant banks, contemplative and educational mood, documentary photojournalism, National Geographic style environmental portrait, professional photography showing indigenous knowledge transfer, World Press Photo award winning photo seriesPhoto 2 - Sacred Waters\nIndigenous Baré community members in traditional dress perform ceremony around small remaining pool at base of dried waterfall, Cachoeira do Tarumã Amazon Brazil, medium shot showing full ritual circle, shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 35mm f/5.6 lens, diffused forest light filtering through canopy, composed with sacred pool centered and community forming natural frame, muted earth tones with ceremonial white clothing creating contrast, spiritual reverence despite environmental crisis, documentary photography capturing climate change impact on indigenous spiritual practices, professional photojournalism, World Press Photo award winning photo seriesPhoto 3 - 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The Rio Negro's water level drops lower each day, exposing ancient rocks that bear petroglyphs unseen for generations. For the indigenous and riverine communities of the Amazon Basin, 2024 marks not just another drought, but a crossing into uncharted territory where even ancestral knowledge must adapt to conditions beyond historical memory.

Sebastião Nascimento's documentation spans twelve communities across the western Amazon, capturing how traditional peoples navigate environmental collapse while maintaining cultural identity. His access, built over decades of respectful engagement, reveals intimate moments of adaptation: elders teaching children to read a transformed river, healers adjusting medicinal practices to stressed ecosystems, and communities combining traditional knowledge with new technologies to survive.

The drought has transformed the Amazon's waterways from highways into barriers. Communities once connected by rivers find themselves isolated, their economies disrupted, their food security threatened. Yet Nascimento's images reveal not victims but knowledge holders – people whose understanding of forest and river cycles positions them as essential voices in climate adaptation. His photographs document the transfer of this knowledge across generations, even as the environment that shaped it transforms beyond recognition.

What emerges is a story of resilience tested by unprecedented change. Traditional navigation markers sit high above waterlines. Sacred sites have become dusty depressions. Fish have retreated to depths that traditional gear cannot reach. Yet communities persist, their cultural practices evolving to meet new realities while maintaining connections to land and water that define their identity. This is documentation of frontline climate experience – where abstract global processes manifest as daily survival challenges met with wisdom accumulated over millennia.

Photographer Bio

Born in 1971 in a small community along the Rio Solimões, Sebastião Nascimento learned photography from missionaries but found his vision in his grandmother's stories of river life. She taught him that images, like rivers, carry memory – a philosophy that shapes his documentary practice. After studying visual communications in Manaus, he returned to the Amazon interior, choosing community documentation over commercial success.

His breakthrough came through patient relationship building, spending months in communities before ever lifting a camera. This approach earned trust that opened doors closed to outside observers. His work documenting traditional ecological knowledge has appeared in National Geographic, but he measures success by community response rather than international recognition. \"If the people I photograph don't see truth in the images, I have failed,\" he says. This series represents 18 months of documentation across the 2023-2024 drought cycle, witnessing environmental conditions that push both ecosystems and human adaptation to their limits.

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An elder from the Tikuna community guides his grandson through the exposed bed of the Rio Negro near São Gabriel da Cachoeira, October 2024. The rocks they walk past, normally 5 meters underwater, bear ancestral markings that haven't been visible in living memory. \"These stones are teaching us new lessons,\" the elder explains, pointing out navigation markers his own grandfather once showed him during a lesser drought 60 years ago.

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Photo 2: Sacred Waters

Members of the Baré community perform a water blessing ceremony at Cachoeira do Tarumã, November 2024. The sacred site, usually a thundering waterfall, has reduced to a single stream feeding a shallow pool. Despite the transformation, the community maintains their spiritual practices, adapting ceremonies to honor water's presence rather than abundance. The ritual now includes prayers for the water's return.

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Photo 3: Forest Medicine

Dona Maria, a respected pajé (healer) of mixed Tukano and caboclo heritage, collects medicinal plants in the drought-stressed forest near her community, September 2024. Many traditional medicine plants have become scarce or altered their properties due to water stress. She adapts her practice, learning which substitutes work and teaching younger healers to recognize plants in their drought-altered states.

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Photo 4: Children of Two Worlds

Indigenous youth from the multi-ethnic community of Novo Airão learn to use GPS devices while elders teach traditional river navigation, October 2024. The drought has made traditional knowledge more critical than ever, but communities recognize that survival requires bridging ancestral wisdom with modern tools. The children will need both to navigate their transformed homeland.

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A gathering in the Dessana community of Umari Norte discusses water management strategies, November 2024. The meeting combines traditional leadership structures with input from younger members who bring scientific data about climate patterns. Together, they develop plans that honor customary resource management while addressing unprecedented scarcity.

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Photo 6: Adaptation Architecture

Community members in São João do Tupé construct an elevated water storage system, December 2024. The design adapts traditional stilt architecture to create gravity-fed distribution, combining indigenous engineering knowledge with materials provided by NGO partners. The project represents community-driven adaptation that respects cultural aesthetics while meeting new environmental challenges.

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Photo 7: River Memory

Seu João, keeper of river stories for the Baniwa people, shares navigation tales with children at a dried section of the Rio Içana, November 2024. The riverbed, transformed into a sandy expanse, becomes a classroom where oral tradition meets visible evidence of change. His stories now include the time when rivers ran dry, ensuring this knowledge enters the collective memory.

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Photo 1 - Traditional Navigation\nAn elderly indigenous man with deeply weathered brown skin wearing simple cotton clothing guides a young boy across exposed riverbed rocks covered in ancient petroglyphs, Rio Negro Brazil, wide-angle environmental portrait at golden hour, shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 24mm f/8 lens, warm natural lighting highlighting the texture of exposed stones and creating long shadows, compositional leading lines formed by the dry riverbed channel, earthy browns and ochres with touches of remaining green vegetation on distant banks, contemplative and educational mood, documentary photojournalism, National Geographic style environmental portrait, professional photography showing indigenous knowledge transfer, World Press Photo award winning photo series

Photo 2 - Sacred Waters\nIndigenous Baré community members in traditional dress perform ceremony around small remaining pool at base of dried waterfall, Cachoeira do Tarumã Amazon Brazil, medium shot showing full ritual circle, shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 35mm f/5.6 lens, diffused forest light filtering through canopy, composed with sacred pool centered and community forming natural frame, muted earth tones with ceremonial white clothing creating contrast, spiritual reverence despite environmental crisis, documentary photography capturing climate change impact on indigenous spiritual practices, professional photojournalism, World Press Photo award winning photo series

Photo 3 - Forest Medicine\nElderly indigenous woman healer carefully selecting medicinal plants from drought-stressed forest floor, her weathered hands examining leaves in filtered sunlight, Amazon rainforest Brazil, intimate environmental portrait at 45-degree angle, shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 85mm f/2.8 lens, dappled forest light creating natural spotlight on her concentrated expression, shallow depth of field isolating subject from complex forest background, rich greens contrasting with dry brown leaves indicating drought stress, mood of careful adaptation and traditional knowledge, documentary photography, National Geographic quality, professional photojournalism, World Press Photo award winning photo series

Photo 4 - Children of Two Worlds\nGroup of indigenous children gathered around elder holding traditional carved stick while one child holds GPS device, all studying exposed riverbed, Novo Airão Amazon Brazil, environmental group portrait, shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 50mm f/5.6 lens, bright afternoon light creating clear details of both traditional and modern tools, composed with elder centered and children forming natural circle, warm skin tones against bleached riverbed sand, hopeful mood showing knowledge synthesis, documentary photography capturing cultural adaptation, professional photojournalism, World Press Photo award winning photo series

Photo 5 - Community Council\nIndoor gathering of multi-generational indigenous community members seated in circle discussing water management, mix of traditional dress and modern clothing, young member holding tablet showing climate data, Dessana community Brazil, wide interior shot, shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 24mm f/4 lens and bounce flash, even lighting showing all faces clearly, circular composition emphasizing democratic discussion, earth tones with pops of color from woven textiles, serious but collaborative atmosphere, documentary photography of climate adaptation planning, professional photojournalism, World Press Photo award winning photo series

Photo 6 - Adaptation Architecture\nIndigenous community members constructing elevated bamboo water storage structure using traditional building techniques, multiple workers at different heights of construction, São João do Tupé Amazon Brazil, wide-angle architectural documentary shot, shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 24mm f/8 lens, clear morning light showing construction details and community cooperation, diagonal composition following structure's lines with workers creating human scale, natural materials palette of bamboo yellows and forest greens, industrious and innovative mood, documentary photography showing climate adaptation, professional photojournalism, World Press Photo award winning photo series

Photo 7 - River Memory\nElderly indigenous storyteller gesturing expressively while seated on large exposed river stone with group of children listening intently, vast dried riverbed stretching behind them, Rio Içana Amazon Brazil, environmental portrait with narrative element, shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 35mm f/5.6 lens, late afternoon golden light creating dramatic shadows and warm tones, rule of thirds with storyteller positioned left and riverbed creating leading lines, ochre and sand tones with blue sky reflection in remaining water pools, mood of cultural transmission and environmental witness, documentary photography, National Geographic style, professional photojournalism, World Press Photo award winning photo series

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The River's Memory