"Alexander, okay? I'll try to respond in time and goodwill of the line I have in hand. I'm traveling. "

Peter Martinelli got so e-mail containing the answers to the interview, sent days before. This is Peter Martinelli: "I am traveling."

Peter was in Manaus and answered a few questions to the blog of the 5th Paraty in Focus . At the festival, he will teach the workshop "Personal Project: Creation and Production Process" .

This interview should smells like "jaraqui ballad with two" .

Enjoy!

Photos: Peter Martinelli

Village Kuikuro (MT), and Rio Içana 2000 (AM), 2002

The workshop will teach you in Paraty is "Personal Project: Process Creation and Production." When you felt you should leave for a personal project and move away from the mainstream press or the day-to-day in a newsroom?

The intention of documenting the Amazon began shipping in contact with the Indians and Giants talks with Claudio Villas Boas from 1970 to 1973. The project began to be drafted in 84, shortly after coming out of Here. Eleven years later, I left the studio in April and went to Amazon to make the book "The People of the Amazon waters."

You have a photographic project that merges with his life: the Amazon. The photographer have a project as "big and long" as its is easier to create and relationship with the subject? Or fragmented projects are easier to conceive?

I do not know. But in my case things are totally tied. I think long-term project is no guarantee of comfort, but took into consideration the pleasure of being in the bush, enjoy being there, you can talk to the Indian who lives in the forest and I have great admiration. Regardless of photography is who I like to talk. The other thing is that I know in the forest, know how to live there.

How important a festival as the Paraty in Focus for development and promotion of Brazilian Photography?

In the meeting itself, a rather healthy, meet new people and revise our old friends, also serves to revisit the relationship.

Your blog really stands for story telling and the recovery of memory. The act of writing is part of the maturation of creating photo?

I could not write if not to publish. It is a good way to reminisce about the closures of newsrooms. It is a communication vehicle that can itself be treated as a magazine or a newspaper.

Pedro, in Brazil, where the greatest difficulty for a photographer to publish a book?

Receive the budget of the graphics, talking to director of marketing, with editor, with distributors and bookstores. This is part of grief. Pleasure is shooting with his own money to have freedom and independence.

Photos: Peter Martinelli

Parintins (AM), 2005 and Iriri River (MT), 2000

Photos: Peter Martinelli

Marajó Island (PA), and Rio Içana 2005 (AM), 1999