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The exhibition catalog Claudia Andujar: the Yanomami fight gather images of the photographer’s work dedicated to the Yanomami, returning to little known aspects of her trajectory and her struggle for the demarcation of indigenous land.

Claudia Andujar photographed the Yanomami for the first time in 1971, for an article in the magazine Realidade. The encounter changed the life of the photographer, who returned many times to the territory to document their still relatively isolated culture. The publication presents the first years of contact, when Andujar accompanies daily activities in the forest and “maloca” (indigenous community houses), participates in shamanistic rituals and a drawing project from 1976 in which she invites them to represent their own culture.

The second part presents the contact of the Yanomami with the white people and its consequences. There are photographs of the construction of the Perimetral Norte highway, conflicts with gold miners, religious missions, epidemics, and the health project organized by Andujar in the 1980s, when she mobilized international agencies for a major vaccination campaign throughout the territory.

The catalog also contains an biographical essay of Claudia by curator Thyago Nogueira, a text about the Yanomami by anthropologist Bruce Albert, a chronology by journalist Jan Rocha and a 1975 text by Claudia herself.