When the Spanish-Mexican journalist, Francesc Badia i Dalmases, and the Uruguayan photojournalist, Pablo Albarenga, decided to investigate how climate change is harming indigenous peoples, they realised that the truth would only come from experiencing the lived reality.
Their multimedia series, ‘Rainforest Defenders’, which won a prestigious Gabo Prize 2020 in the Image category, tells the stories of young people who are knee deep in fighting the Amazon rainforest crisis that directly threatens their homes, as well as the world at large.
“Right off the bat, we were looking to answer a complex question, which is how climate change affects the populations who suffer it directly,” Badia told the Gabo Foundation. “It’s a very abstract question that is usually answered with statistics at a macro level, but what we sought was to have a personal answer from that microcosm.”
