Claudia Andujar. From the A Sõnia series, São Paulo, SP, circa 1971. Courtesy of the artist / Instituto Moreira Salles

Claudia Andujar, In the Place of the Other is the result of two years of research in the photographer’s archives. It is also the first international retrospective exhibition solely dedicated to the work photographer and activist Claudia Andujar produced in the 1960s and 1970s in Brazil, before her involvement with the Yanomami indigenous people of Amazonia, which brought her worldwide attention.

Andujar was born in Switzerland in 1931 from a Jewish and Protestant family, and grew up in Transylvania. A survivor of the Holocaust, she flew to New York in 1946, and nine years later arrived in São Paulo, Brazil, where she initiated a successful career in photography.

Profoundly marked by the traumas of war, Andujar found a new life in Brazil. Photography helped her to communicate with people and understand the new territory. From the 1950s to 1970s, Andujar contributed to magazines, participated in art exhibitions and traveled north and south.

This exhibition presents different series through which Andujar built and matured her photographic vision: the Brazilian Families (1962-64), the groundbreaking editorial work for Realidade magazine (1966-1971), the reflections on womanhood of A Sônia (1971), the original street photography of Rua Direita (circa 1970), and the initial incursions into Amazonia forest (1970-1972).

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