Chipaya the first generation

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Bolivia | Tuesday, November 8, 2011 | 5 photos

Chipaya is a little town at the south of Bolivia, where still live the decendents of the first residents of this country. In this place there is no potable water, just a few of quinua crops, and the way to get there is long and unconfortable. They arquitecture still retains some hystorical features, and the people preserve their own mother laguage. From this place is easy to get to Argentina and Chile, and many of the young people of this town is migratin to those countries. For that reason this population is going to the extintion in a few decades or years even. Bolivia is a very turistic place, but ironically the most visited places are the most forgotten.



Photography takes me by chance this year into this town, with the people, with their world apart. The photography has always changed my life. At the age of 8 i knew the black box, and the light writing whit a zenit that came from an old coffin, and since that first experience my life have been turning around read and write the world that we all see and we all chage day by day. With the photography I speak, and others speak too, there is no most powerful tool that comunication, expressed in photography and design. Thats why I decide to do this things in my life, and in the same way that photography and books change my life for sure, I wish I could cooperate to make if not a better, a most sincere place, showing the beauty and the unpleasant too; preserving that good things, and trying to change some others.