SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES

Brazil

File number: brhd0012

© South American Pictures/ Tony Morrison

Brazil: Amapá state. The cores of thousands of tree trunks litter the yard of a saw-mill in the Amazon forest. These cores are left after super-sharp machines have taken thin 'peelings' of the wood which are dried as flattened sheets. The sheets are glued and compressed to make plywood.

 

 

 

 

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