Brad Horrigan

Photo Essays: CHILE - 200/20/2

Roughly 200 years after gaining its independence, and 20 years after the end of the dictatorship, two distinct "Chiles" exist today. The wealth of Las Condes and the working class people of Pudahuel; both Santiago neighborhoods are Chile. These photographs are from various corners of this long nation and attempt to tell the Chilean story through two different lenses.  

  • Lider (the largest supermarket chain in Chile) employees camp out along the highway during a strike.
  • Recoleta Dominica Library in Santiago.
  • A municipal worker sweeps the ever-present dust on a playground at Chuquicamata.  Codelco, the state-owned copper company  has created
  • A supporter of former-dictator Augusto Pinochet supporter outside his home on his 90th birthday.
  • La Vega open market in Santiago.
  • A structure built at Ritoque, a small artist community outside Valparaíso.
  • A cab driver wipes down his car in the early-morning Santiago light.
  • Children cool off in a Santiago fountain.
  • The filming of {quote}El Clavel Negro{quote} or {quote}The Black Carnation{quote} in front of La Moneda (the palace of the sitting president).
  • With Easter approaching, students in Iquique have rabbit ears.
  • The public reads letters to Santa Claus from low-income Santiago children at the city's central post office.  Readers often mail the requested Christmas toys to the young letter-writers.
  • Fans get into it during a Dream Theater concert.
  • A young girl gets awayfrom the sermon in a large Santiago church.
  • A laundromat in Cartagena.
  • A light moment at Cartagena beach.
  • Former President Michelle Bachelet.
  • Lulo and his son Isaac in the historically left-leaning La Legua neighborhood of Santiago.
  • Joaquín Lavín speaks to the press during his campaign for the presidency.  He ran with the backing of the Independent Democratic Union partywhich has conservative holdovers from  the days of Pinochet.  Lavín has also praised Pinochet's economic policies in his writings.
  • In front of a memorial for those missing, a young woman holds up a photograph of her uncle who went missing during the Pinochet dictatorship.
  • Calama street scene.
  • Sebastian Piñera during a presidential debate in 2006.
  • National Renewal party presidential candidate Sebastian Piñera lines up a penalty kick at Real Madrid Football School on the outskirts of Santiago on Christmas day 2005.  He lost his presidential bid in 2006, but was victorious in 2010 and now serves as president.
  • A protester opposes Canadian-based Barrick Gold's mining project in Pascua Lama in front of La Moneda.
  • A homeless woman lay in the giant doorway of the Basilica de la Merced in downtown Santiago.
  • Window in Santiago's Bellavista neighborhood.
  • Boy outside a cemetery in San Pedro de Atacama.
  • Supporters of former-dictator Augusto Pinochet supporter outside his home on his 90th birthday.
  • La Vega open market in Santiago.
  • Young footballers in Valdivia.
  • Welder in Valparaíso.
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