南美洲，單幅照片

Lalo de Almeida

巴西籍，生於1970年

亞馬遜的旱災

2023年10月13日，巴西，亞馬遜州的特費。在普拉亞港原住民社區附近，一位漁夫穿過亞馬遜河支流乾涸的河床。

2023年，亞馬遜地區經歷了此地史上最嚴重的乾旱。這場旱災對原住民、鄉村及鄰近流域的社區都造成極大的影響。普拉亞港通常只能藉著河路到達，沒有陸路交通。然而，乾旱導致居民不得不沿著乾涸的河床步行數公里才能回到家。這一景象深刻地反映了全球環境危機和亞馬遜地區乾旱的嚴重性。

Lalo de Almeida為《聖保羅頁報》拍攝下這張照片。他花了十年紀錄亞馬遜地區的環境、社會和原住民議題。

South America, Singles category

Lalo de Almeida

Brazilian, born 1970

Drought in the Amazon

A fisherman walks across the dry bed of a branch of the Amazon River, near the Porto Praia Indigenous community. Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil, 13 October 2023

In 2023, the Amazon experienced its most intense drought since recordkeeping began. The drought disproportionately impacted Indigenous, rural, and river communities. While Porto Praia has no road access and is normally reachable only by river, the drought meant that residents had to walk for kilometers along the dry riverbed to reach their homes, capturing the gravity of the global environmental crisis and drought in the Amazon in one moment.

Lalo de Almeida, who took this photograph on assignment for Folha de São Paulo, has spent a decade documenting environmental, social, and indigenous issues in the Amazon.