Photojournalist Tommaso Protti captures deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon
14 December 2019 |
8:22 am
"A haunting portrait of crisis in the Amazon rainforest" is just one of the descriptions of a striking series of images taken by Italian photojournalist Tommaso Protti. They were taken during his sixth-month journey across the Brazilian Amazon. Protti, winner of the 2019 Carmignac Photojournalism award, tells us more about his photos, which depict the deforestation of the Amazon.
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