Critical History of Photography in the Amazons and Art is Decolonial Resistance

Abstract

Based on accounts and rewrites, this article intends to think about paths in photography history, their connections between ethics and use of image and narrative appropriations. Taking the Pará Amazon as a place of reflection, an effort is made to rethink the power relationship constituted by a specific point of view in the history of image. This text had the collaboration of Izabelle Louise Anaúa Tremembé, an indigenous student at Federal University of Pará (UFC). In her accounts, she talks about appropriation culture, exotification of sacred objects, and sexualization of female bodies, as well in her speech, she affirms the lack of knowledge when it comes to their rituals and even brought up that indigenous autonomy in making art has always existed. The accounts were articulated on the occasion of the meeting between teachers and photography and cinema producers, in April, 2019, Alcantara/MA.