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Visual inspiration for changing perspectives » Lou Dematteis

Lou Dematteis

 

Lou has covered issues of social, political and environmental importance around the globe for the past 25 years. These photos are from his latest book, Crude Reflections – Oil, Ruin and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest. Find out more about Lou’s work in Ecuador in Lou Dematteis: Visions of Environmental Justice.

Traveling by canoe on the Pastaza River with Achuar Indians on the way to the village of Sharamentza.
Aerial view of the Bobonaza River and surrounding rainforest near the Kichwa village of Sarayaku in the southern Amazon.
A worker siphons crude oil from a waste pit left by Texaco near Dureno in 1993. This oil was later used to spread on roads in the area to keep the dust down.
Nine-year-old Jairo Yumbo shows his birth-deformed hand on the road in front of his home in Rumipamba.
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Juana Apolo walks out of a cemetery in La Andina where her father, brother and sister are buried, all of whom died of cancer.
Luz Maria Marin holds the head of her husband Angel Toala one day before he died of stomach cancer in his home in Shushufindi.
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Secoya indigenous leader Humberto Piaguaje (C) is joined by Kichwa leader Guillermo Grefa (L) as he speaks to the press and supporters after emerging from Chevron\'s (formerly Texaco) annual shareholders meeting in San Ramon, California. When speaking to the meeting about Texaco\'s contamination in the Amazon he said
Steven Donziger, attorney for the affected communities, speaks with Huaorani women outside Lago Agrio’s Superior Court at the start of the Chevron trial on October 21, 2003.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Chevron (formerly Texaco) gather at the site of the oil giant\'s first well in the Amazon rainforest outside the town of Lago Agrio to demand
Felipe Tentets, elected leader of the Achuar village of Sharamentza. The Achuar people are opposed to oil exploitation in their territory in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon and say they will use violence if necessary to keep oil companies out.

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