Claudia Andujar

Claudia Andujar, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 1931, is a renowned photographer who spent her youth in Hungary and the United States before settling in São Paulo in 1957. Her work is marked by a strong commitment to social issues, evident in her collaborations with national and international publications such as the magazines Realidade, Claudia, and Life. In addition to being a photographer, Andujar has also devoted herself to teaching, offering photography courses at the São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Art Museum (Masp).

In the 1970s, she was part of the Realidade magazine's photography team and conducted extensive reporting on the Amazon. During this period, she received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and another from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) to study the Yanomami Indians, whose traditions and way of life became the central focus of her work.

Andujar also played a crucial role in the Commission for the Creation of the Yanomami Park from 1978 to 1992 and coordinated the campaign for the demarcation of indigenous lands. From 1993 to 1998, she worked on the Institutional Program of the Pro-Yanomami Commission. She has published several books about her work, including "Amazon" in partnership with George Love (1937-1995), "Yanomami Mythopoems", "Missa da Terra sem Males", and "Yanomami: The House, the Forest, the Invisible".

In 2005, the book "The Vulnerability of Being" was released. In 2015, Andujar inaugurated the Claudia Andujar Gallery, a pavilion dedicated to her work, at the Inhotim Institute in Minas Gerais. That same year, the documentary "The Foreigner", which explores her life as an artist and activist, was released.

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