This album is ultimately a document of failure. Our complicity in the ongoing destruction of the Amazon is undeniable and to save it what is required is nothing less than a tectonic shift in perspective and urgent, radical support of the people of Brazil to preserve what remains of that which we have failed to protect ourselves. It is a safe bet that wherever you are reading this, there was not long ago a vast forest reaching out above you and as far as the eye can see, vast ecosystems erased and buried under concrete. To witness this systematic destruction firsthand was to travel back in time, and reflect upon the scarred landscapes of Europe, the US and particularly for me Australia. I recorded volunteer veterinarians treating third degree burns on the paws of an anesthetised Jaguar injuries inflicted by emboldened ranchers seeking to produce more beef for export on the smoldering remains of her wetland home. I saw mercury poisoning rivers, and vast swathes of forest decimated for the promise of a few flecks of gold by young miners illegally seeking their fortune in Indigenous territories. I watched illegal-loggers fell 700 year-old trees, and heard the unnerving silence of the forest that followed. The results of that documentation would eventually become Richard’s new film Broken Spectre.ĭuring that period I witnessed fires so vast they blacked out the sun. “Over the past 3 years, Richard Mosse, Trevor Tweeten and myself traversed the Amazon documenting its destruction.
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