Claudia Andujar

Claudia Andujar (1931) is a Swiss photographer and activist, naturalised Brazilian, who lives and works in São Paulo (Brazil). She emigrated to the USA after the Second World War and to Brazil in 1955. In the 1970s she carried out a study and photographic documentation of the Yonamami culture. From 1978 to 2000, she worked for the Pro-Yanomami Commission and coordinated the campaign for the demarcation of Yonomami territory in Amazonia, launched in 1993. She has received several awards and honours for her artistic work and her defence of human rights.