COPAVI Project: Jackson

This is Jackson.  He is 22 years old, and has been living at COPAVI for the last ten years, with his mom and large gang of younger siblings, who are constantly in action, asking questions, roaming around, demanding and commanding attention.

Jackson has an eye for aesthetics (in terms of his sense of fashion, the way he cooks, he also designs clothes), and was eager to participate and share some images with the world.  Although he lives in a community fueled by sugarcane, Jackson didn't take one photograph the cane fields.  According to Jackson, the monocultural landscape is "ugly."

"We produce cane here, out of necessity...but it is everywhere, all that you see... It destroys everything, our diversity, our culture."

Along with Jackson's super-fly sense of fashion and love of nature, he also has a great sense of humor.  He is hilarious in fact, and always ready to laugh.  Check out the film he shot of his canine-companion-daughter, taking on the massive cow (in the slideshow).

Perfeito. Perfection. 

I like to take photos of these species, because it is not like we see them everyday. 

a perspectiva de Dandara

This is beautiful to me, it symbolizes the forces of nature, the unexplainable. 

I think this tree exists in the Amazon. 

New tattoos on Jackson's brother, names of mother and father.

Shade trees, eucalyptus.