Green Paradise, Red Gold

A shocking record of the Amazon and the deadly threats it faces

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AMasonry, a mythical destination full of mysteries and legends, many strange and bizarre stories, strange customs and traditions. The book by Vassilis Konstantinos is a unique travel diary of four expeditions (2015-2018) to five tribes of the Amazon. The author came into contact with cultures completely different from our own, experienced unrepeatable primitive ceremonies and captured through his photographic lens a way of life that has hardly changed over the centuries. He saw the world with different eyes and realized how wrong is the perception of "savage" and "uncivilized" natives. He was taught values that tend to disappear in our own "developed" world, such as respect and harmonious coexistence with mother nature, balance in human relationships, hospitality and selfless friendship. The message to protect and save the Amazon is not only humanitarian but also ecological, since these tribes are the protectors of the largest ecosystem on our planet, which is being destroyed day by day, with incalculable consequences for its future humanity.

Author Biography

I was born in 1963 in Piraeus. I studied Computer Science and Business Studies in London (1982 – 1987) and took Spanish classes at the Academia de Español in Quito, Ecuador, and at the Center for Spanish Studies in Athens (1987 – 1988).

The love for travel and adventure made me combine them with photography, which I began to deal with seriously since 1992, specializing in travel photography and documentary reportage. To date I have traveled to thirty-two countries, on four continents.

Member of On Location agency and later of IML Image Group from 1997 to 2014, with publications in magazines and books in Europe and America.

Collaborations, among others, with National Geographic Hellas, D.E.P.A. Kalamata, the Greek Folklore Research Center of the Academy of Athens and the anthropologist Nadia Seremetaki.

Since 2015 I have been photographing mainly personal long-term projects, one of which is "Amazonia. The land of myths", from which the idea for this particular book arose.

My most important photographic awards include the 1st prize in the prestigious Fuji Film Euro Press Photo 2002 competition in the "Portrait" category, in 2005 in the "Wildlife" category and the 1st prize in the 2006 National Geographic Hellas competition in the "Nature" category . Dedication to my work from Fotografos magazine in February 2010.

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