The Swiss photographer, who turns 94 on June 12, has built an exemplary career in defence of Brazil's indigenous peoples. The Inhotim museum in Brazil is celebrating her life and work with an exhibition dedicated to indigenous Latin American artists who carry her torch. When she arrived in Brazil in 1955, Claudia Andujar spoke Hungarian, French, German and English, but no Portuguese. Half a century later, in her book The Vulnerability of Being, which synthetises 50 years of her work, Andujar stated that her biography could only be told “through images” - and that photography was the language she had adopted “to communicate with the world”. Today, at the age of 94, Andujar is an internationally recognised artist. She is also one of the most important voices in defence of the rights of the Yanomami peoples, one of the largest remaining indigenous groups in South America, residing along the border between Venezuela and Brazil. In 2015, the Inhotim Museum, located in the state of Minas ...
