HANS SILVESTER IN THE BENCH TRIBE, ETHIOPIA,... Lot 25

HANS SILVESTER IN THE BENCH TRIBE, ETHIOPIA, 2010 Artist's proof Digital print on Ilford paper, produced with Canon EOS, mounted on Dibond 90 x 55 cm Gift of the artist From the 1980s onwards, Hans Silvester turned his attention to environmental activism. He photographed all of Europe's nature parks, denounced the ravages of deforestation in Amazonia, published a long report on the Calavon River under the title "La rivière assassinée" ("The Murdered River"), and took an interest in forest exploitation in North America. He recently published a photographic account of the lives of desert women and another on the peoples of the Omo Valley. Hans Silvester recently published a book entitled "Pastorale Africaine", with a preface by Pierre Rabhi.