“It is wrong to focus too much on the testimonial value of his photos. They have that, ind

“It is wrong to focus too much on the testimonial value of his photos. They have that, indeed, but, in equal measure they express the milieu in which he lived and they show that when he got behind a camera, he became a giant, a true inventor, a veritable force of invention, a recreator of life.”- Mario Vargas Llosa 

Martin Chambi as a photographer, originally from southern Peru. He was one of the first major indigenous Latin American photographers.

Recognized for the profound and ethnic subject matter of his photographs, he was a prolific portrait photographer in the towns and countryside of the Peruvian Andes. 

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