The Greater Carajás Project has faced scrutiny from human rights and environmental organizations for alleged abuses and violations that have transformed life for the many communities along its path
following the Human Rights Council’s visit to the region. Others have had ophthalmological and dermatological diseases and burns caused by improperly disposed residue and toxic waste from “pig iron,” an intermediate product from the processing to steel.
Brazilian photographer Ian Cheibub has spent several months over the course of the past three years following the railroad and spending time with these communities along the tracks. Shot originally in black and white, the images portray a world transformed by the cargo railroad.
Amjire Parkateje stands in front of two logs before an ancestral log run that takes place every month in the Indigenous Mãe Maria territory."God made the Sumauma for the Indigenous run,” he says.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.: Edna Teresa Belfort rests on a hammock at a house in the Santa Rosa dos Pretos quilombo.
Jose Antonio Dias Cardoso and his wife Leonilda Cardoso hold portraits of their sons, who left their town of Piquia de Baixo.Aerial view of the Itaqui Port in São Luis, Brazil where the mountains of iron ore extracted from the mines is processed before being shipped abroad.Enzo Pires, from the Santa Rosa dos Pretos territory, sleeps in his grandmother's bed.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
Daguimar Jardim stands in front of her father’s tomb at a cemetery now part of the S11D mining area. When the iron mine was discovered, the small farmers who lived in this area were displaced. Once a year, they visit the cemetery, jumping a fence. A forest has grown on top of the graves.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.: A wall is seen at the Km7 neighborhood in Marabá, Brazil.
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