The Krahô are indigenous people who live in the Cerrado area in the Northeast of Tocantins, Brazil. There are around 3000 people, gathered in families that live in 40 villages (aldeias).

They had their first contact with occidental civilisations around 200 years ago, and since then, they have been experiencing many sorts of threats, environmental challenges and external cultural influences.

Many originary peoples in Brazil, like the indigenous Krahô, are often overlooked simply because they don’t inhabit the Amazon Forest region, which is the place where the world’s attention seems to be at. Roughly speaking, half of the native population in Brazil lives outside the Amazon. They live in a kind of symbiosis with nature, they respect and protect the environment because it is where they find the resources to survive on an everyday basis.

Today, with the ultra conservative policies put in place by president Jair Bolsonaro, indigenous communities are mobilising to resist against policies that seek to weaken, and potentially wipe communities off the map. It’s not just the threat of violence or land demarcation that they face, but something more existential. The threat is on them losing their identity.

The Kraho project was shot at aldeia Pé de Coco in March 2016.