'The Yanomami could disappear' – photographer Claudia Andujar on a people under threat in Brazil

Andujar lived with the tribe and fights for them. A timely show of her images comes to London soon

It is more than 50 years since Claudia Andujar began photographing the Yanomami, the people of the Amazon rainforest near Brazil's border with Venezuela. Now 89, she is using her archive to increase their visibility, at a time when their survival is under renewed threat.

The question of indigenous people should be more respected, more widely known. This is very important as it's the only way the present [Brazilian] government will come to recognise their rights as human beings to occupy their land," says Andujar, speaking from Sao Paulo. This government isn't interested in their rights."