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CPOY 77 Portfolio Finalist, Runner-Up College Photographer of the Year: Ian Cheibub

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Slide 9 of 41
September 14, 2022

During the government of Jair Bolsonaro, the three B's (bull, bible and bullets), grew immensely in the region. The economic contrasts and poverty have also grown in the country. As the Amazonian population is one of the poorest regions of the country, many of them relied in illegal activities to sustain their families, such as deforestation, illegal grabbing, logging, invasions and death threats. This project looks to the contemporary settles of the region and shed light into the current conflict on the notion of the development between who have just arrived and those who have always lived in the Amazon.

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