time ago I spoke with a photographer who traveled Chile, for the typical Bicentennial project, collecting faces. Thus, he said that his experience in the Antofagasta region were the ugliest faces Chile.
immediately reply to the opinion of the photographer is xenophobia, perhaps the Andean indigenous component is higher than elsewhere in the country and that most Chileans is considered ugly, but clarified its reasons. The first was related to high solar radiation to which we are exposed daily. The sun shatters the skin, but causes some unusual spots. For this here, she could find many faces, weird, sick and ultimately faces, ugly faces that was what he wanted. Now, well what was his concept of ugliness? Photography is a lie that captures the soul, he said. Trash. The photography is beautiful or ugly, but through a good photograph an ugly face, can be beautiful. So, he said, pictures of ugly Antofagasta going to end up being beautiful on a point of light management. We must seek the light, find the angles, find the texture, if texture. Anyway it is a subjective, he said. But he went further, the photos could capture the whole essence of the city, a city of ugly in certain circumstances and an ugly city with ambition that here you can make more money. The cost is ugliness in the background. A second aspect
faces of Antofagasta, he said, which can give the feeling of ugliness I seek is the history of arsenic contaminated water. The formula: arsenic and solar radiation are lethal to the skin. They make shit. Over the years this can be seen in the faces of the grandparents in the spots on your skin, especially in the clams. Then the photographer decided to seek the face of the grandparents, the most stained. I do not homeless people, ordinary people want and can give me Antofagasta.
Forget the more affluent sectors of the city, he said, where people and throughout Chile has a clear European component, which reveals itself as a xenophobic country, some call class, but that is another matter.
After waiting in the street Matta, the most popular in every corner, as well as recommended, the photographer did some of their focus on that day. In fact, he said, the sun has done shit to Antofagasta, as well as the pressure of work (may be of mining), alcohol in men, which the fan-water hair withered women, poor diet, eat fewer vegetables and fruits, and disinterest in the locker room. I stuck with the latter. He said, basically, bad taste. However clarified that accomplished one of the best photos of their work and that captured the essence of Antofagasta.
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