El fotografo Martín Chambi (1891-1973)
Martín Chambi Jimenez of Puneño native descent in the Andean highlands was the first to photograph his people as seen through their own eyes.
Chambi, 1936, on the occasion of an exhibition in Santiago and Viña del Mar:
“I have read that in Chile it is thought that Indians have no culture, that they are uncivilized, that they are intellectually and artistically inferior when compared to whites and Europeans. More eloquent than my opinion, however, are graphic testimonies. It is my hope that impartial and objective witnesses will examine this evidence. I feel that I am a representative of my race; my people speak through my photographs.”
A student of Max Vargas in Arequipa, Chambi moved to his own studio in Cusco on Calle Marques. The Chambi glassplate archives are currently held Casa Cabrera, Plaza Nazarenas 231, Cusco (T: 0051 84 23 3210) maintained by his grandson, Teo Allain Chambi.
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