Lima is the biggest city in the world built on a desert, so when you cross the topological frontieres of the city, after the barriadas (peruvian township usually constructed on the mounts of the city) the desert reappear. In the north of the Panamericana road wich cross the wole city...
Zonia Zena: La Musica en la Muerte
The work presented is a documentation of a tradition in Latin America. Two countries are visually documented, Peru and Mexico. The Day of the Death celebrations take place in November. Says Zonia: I've chose to photograph this celebration because I feel it brings a point of connection from pre columbian...
Paco Chuquiure: OASIS
The inhabitants of "Oasis" have built their life on an abandoned trash heap outside Lima. Ten years ago they simply took over the former dump in what is called an "invasion". This is the euphemism Peruvians use to describe the technically illegal land grab of empty space in many areas...
Thomas Hobbs: Maravilla del Mundo
Iquitos, Peru is a city of approximately half a million people located on the Amazon river. Its only accesses are by boat or plane. There are no highways connecting it with the rest of Peru, making the city a kind of island. Surrounded on three sides by water, the city...
Interview with photographer Jaime Travezan
- How did you get into photography? While studying architecture in the 80's in my hometown, Lima, I got a job as a journalist for a local newspaper. Many of the articles had to be documented with photographs, this made me take a camera and start to do my first...