Récits de voyage

Organised as part of the Europalia Brasil arts festival, this exhibition displayed around sixty colour and black and white photographs taken by King Léopold III during his series of trips to Mato Grosso and various regions of Amazonia between 1962 and 1967. A keen photographer, he brought back from his travels thousands of images which illustrate the beauty of the tropical forest, scenes from everyday life and stunning portraits demonstrating a close relationship with the Indigenous people. In 1964, his enthusiasm for the country, a land of such contrasts, prompted him to take part in the expeditions of the Villa Boas brothers, who were the first to make contact with the Txicão tribe.