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Amazon Rain Forest
JANUARY 2007
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Fighting Figures
Photograph by Alex Webb
Silhouetted effigies representing Brazil's president and the demise of the country's agriculture dangle in the afternoon sun in Lucas do Rio Verde in Mato Grosso, near the deforested southern edge of the Amazon. Unhappy with rising production costs and their inflated debt burden owing to an overvaluation of Brazil's currency, soy farmers across the country forced the closure of grain silos and blocked roads and railways for over a month last spring. The government responded with a more than 26-billion-dollar farm aid package.
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Camera: Leica MP or M6
Film Type: Kodachrome 64
Lens: 35mm Summicron
Speed and F-Stop: Unrecorded
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Weather Conditions: Sunny
Time of Day: 4 p.m.
Lighting Techniques: Natural light
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