Fotomuseum Winterthur | Events | Saturday, 27.11.2021, 14:00–15:00
Tour and Talk: Natural Disasters in the Amazon and Their Consequences
Claudia Andujar, Maloca near the Catholic mission at the Catrimani River, Roraima State, Brazil, 1976 © Claudia Andujar
During an exhibition tour and talk, Dr Omar Bellprat, climate scientist, and Nadine Wietlisbach, director Fotomuseum Winterthur, discuss ecological issues surrounding the threat to natural habitats. What are the tangible challenges of climate change? And what is the significance of the relationship of Indigenous communities with nature?
Dr Omar Bellprat is an expert for natural hazard prevention, climate change and environmental science. For two years, he participated in the planning and implementation of strategic partnerships to combat natural disasters on the ground in Peru and from Switzerland. After the outbreak of massive forest fires in the Amazon in 2019, Bellprat developed a computer programme to analyse and precicelsy target the sources of the fires in cooperation with the organization Swiss Humanitarian Aid (SHA) of which he is also a member.
Subject to change due to the current situation.
Admission: CHF 10.– (for members and reduced CHF 8.–)
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Claudia Andujar – The Yanomami Struggle. For five decades, photographer Claudia Andujar (b. 1931) has dedicated her life and work to the Indigenous Yanomami communities in the Amazon region of Northern Brazil. In the late 1970s, when the community found itself subjected to severe external threats, the Swiss-born photographer, who is based in São Paulo, began fighting for the Yanomami’s rights. Today, Andujar’s activist efforts are as relevant as ever – as is illustrated by current events, such as the ongoing deforestation and environmental destruction caused by mining and ranching, human rights violations in the region or the spread of malaria and COVID-19.
Dr Omar Bellprat is an expert for natural hazard prevention, climate change and environmental science. For two years, he participated in the planning and implementation of strategic partnerships to combat natural disasters on the ground in Peru and from Switzerland. After the outbreak of massive forest fires in the Amazon in 2019, Bellprat developed a computer programme to analyse and precicelsy target the sources of the fires in cooperation with the organization Swiss Humanitarian Aid (SHA) of which he is also a member.
Subject to change due to the current situation.
Admission: CHF 10.– (for members and reduced CHF 8.–)
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Claudia Andujar – The Yanomami Struggle. For five decades, photographer Claudia Andujar (b. 1931) has dedicated her life and work to the Indigenous Yanomami communities in the Amazon region of Northern Brazil. In the late 1970s, when the community found itself subjected to severe external threats, the Swiss-born photographer, who is based in São Paulo, began fighting for the Yanomami’s rights. Today, Andujar’s activist efforts are as relevant as ever – as is illustrated by current events, such as the ongoing deforestation and environmental destruction caused by mining and ranching, human rights violations in the region or the spread of malaria and COVID-19.