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Lookbook



This is a digital version of a physical lookbook we created to convey the overarching feeling of the film. In our opinion, this physcial lookbook is still the best representation of the feeling we envision for the project. The digital version does a fine job of conveying this too, but there is simply no substitute for holding a copy in your hands. To request to have a physical lookbook sent to you, along with a development package, please send us an email by clicking on the “Contact” tab in the navigation menu. Make sure to include your full name as well as your mailing and email address.

The writing in this lookbook is a combination of original writing by Tito West as well as excerpts from the notebooks of John Cain Carter. In other places, we have pulled quotes from various sources and where this is the case, credit has been given. The same goes for the photographs. All credits are mentioned in the captions below each image.


Writing on the left page by John Cain Carter. On the right page, this is an excerpt from the book, Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Land by Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph. Photograph by John Cain Carter.
Writing by John Cain Carter. Photograph by Claudia Andujar.
Photograph by Tito West
Photograph by Christopher Anderson
Writing by Tito West. Background photograph by Tito West. Photograph of Soldier by Paolo Pellegrin
Writing from the book, Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Land by Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph. The map is taken from the same book. Color photograph is by Helen and Frank Schreider.
Writing and photograph by John Cain Carter
Writing by Tito West and excerpt from Paradise Lost by John Milton. Photographs from the archives of John Cain Carter and Tito West.
Writing by Tito West. Photographs from the archives of John and Kika Carter.
Writing by Tito West. Black and white photograph by José Medeiros. Color photograph is from the book, Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Land by Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph.
Writing by Tito West and John Cain Carter. Phohograph from the book, Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Land by Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph.
Writing by Tito West. Photographs from the book, Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Land by Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph. Photograph of the Mackaw is from behind the scenes on Werner Herzog’s film, Fitzcaraldo.
Writing by John Cain Carter. Excerpt from Paradise Lost by John Milton. Photograph by Claudia Andujar
Photographs from the book, Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Land by Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph.
Writing and photographs by Tito West
Writing by Tito West. Photographs from the archive of John Cain Carter
Writing by John Cain Carter. Photograph by Tito West
Writing is an excerpt from the book Xingu by Villas Boas brothers. Photograph on the left page is by Claudia Andujar. Photograph on the right page is from the archive of John Cain Carter.
Writing by Tito West. Photographs from the book, Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Land by Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph.
Writing by Tito West. Background photograph by Tito West. Color photograph is from the book Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Land by Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph.
Writing by Tito West. Black and white photographs by Tito West. Color work is by Per Fronth.
Photographs by Tito West
Photograph by Tito West.
Writing by John Cain Carter. Photograph by Tito West.
Writing by Tito West. Color photograph by Tito West. Black and white photograph by Claudia Andujar.
Photograph from the book, Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Land by Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph.
Photographs by Claudia Andujar
Writing by Tito West. Color photograph by Tito West. Black and white photograph by Claudia Andujar.
Photograph top left and botton left are from the book, Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Land by Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph. Remaining photographs are by Miquel Rio Branco.
Photograph by Claudia Andujar.
Photograph by Per Fronth.
Photograph by Per Fronth.