Electric Indigo Blue 

An investigative photo story about the world’s only wild population of Lear’s macaws, a rare blue bird whose color evokes indigo — the deep pigment once known as “blue gold,” historically extracted from plants and later made famous as the dye behind denim jeans.

In Bahia’s Caatinga, this intense blue is now entangled with another force: electricity. As Lear’s macaws move across their only remaining wild habitat, power poles and transmission lines operated by Energisa have become sites of collision, electrocution, and death. Through photography and investigation, the project follows the fragile boundary between wonder and loss, revealing how electrical infrastructure is reshaping the survival of one of Brazil’s most extraordinary birds.