Ian Cheibub

Visual Storyteller

Santarém, Brazil's Minefield, for NRC

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Location: Rio de Janeiro

Nationality: Brazilian

Biography: Ian Cheibub (b.1999) is a visual storyteller based in Rio de Janeiro studying media at Universidade Federal Fluminense. In his work, Ian tries to understand what are the mechanisms that the people from the Global South develop to survive and how... MORE

Thiago Mattos, the owner of a g...st 16, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Thiago Mattos, the owner of a gun club and shop in Santarem poses for a portrait in his office with his AR gun. During the Bolsonaro’s government, many decrees that prohibited guns were made easier for gun buyers. Santarem, Para, Brazil. August 16, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Deforestation in seen from abov...st 16, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Deforestation in seen from above in the Munduruku Indigenous Land, Para, Brazil. August 16, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

A fisherman fishes near the Car...st 16, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

A fisherman fishes near the Cargill Port in Santarem, Pará, Brazil. August 16, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

A truck sets up his truck befor...st 17, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

A truck sets up his truck before driving on the Br 163 road, that connects Santarem with Brazil’s center west. Santarem, Para, Brazil. August 17, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Antelmo Diaz a local farmer fro...st 17, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Antelmo Diaz a local farmer from the south of Brazil who migrated to Santarem in the beggining of the century, poses for a portrait with the cattle in his farm. Belterra, Para, Brazil. August 17, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Alessandra Munduruku, an indige...st 14, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Alessandra Munduruku, an indigenous leadership, rides a boat in a flooded forest in Alter do Chao, Para, Brazil. August 14, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Cattle from the farm of Antelmo...st 17, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Cattle from the farm of Antelmo Diaz, a local farmer from the south of Brazil who migrated to Santarem in the beggining of the century. Belterra, Para, Brazil. August 17, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Carlos Oliveira, a truck driver...st 17, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Carlos Oliveira, a truck driver working along the Br 163 road rests in his hammock near the road waiting for his logistics company in Santarem, Brazil. August 17, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Aerial view of the Br 163 with ...ara, Brazil. Photo: Ian Cheibub

Aerial view of the Br 163 with soy plantations near Santarem, Para, Brazil. Photo: Ian Cheibub

View of the Br 163 road that co...st 17, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

View of the Br 163 road that connects Brazil’s center west, where most of the soy is produced with Santarem, where it is exported to foreign countries. Santarem, Para, Brazil. August 17, 2022. Photo: Ian Cheibub

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Santarém, Brazil's Minefield, for NRC

Copyright Ian Cheibub 2024

Updated Oct 2022

The city of Santarém in Pará has one of the toughest conflicts in Brazil. On one hand, the indigenous who have always lived there, fighting to defend their forest, like Alessandra Munduruku, a very important indigenous leadership who lives everyday with deaths threats. On the other hand, huge companies that are involved in the logistics of planting and exporting the soy planted in the center-west and Pará.
Our story tries to cover many perspectives and aspects of this ongoing situation that is just one more example on how this election is the most important for the country’s recent history.