Seeing his people with unconquered eyes

Via Plep, the extraordinary photos of Martín Chambi, who captured earlier eras of some places where I did fieldwork and the subjects of my master's thesis. I love the ways in which his pictures capture history and create memory, and oddly enough, this morning I was sitting outside drinking my coffee and flipping through this beautiful book, thinking about Vargas Llosa's insightful foreword and the somehow postcolonial sensibilities of Chambi's photos.