A Drying Heartland: The Arid Photographs of Nicolás Marticorena – LENSCRATCH

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A Drying Heartland: The Arid Photographs of Nicolás Marticorena – LENSCRATCH

This week is dedicated to Chilean photographers working across a variety of genres. Today our focus is on Nicolás Marticorena, a journalist, sociologist and photographer whose global practice explores issues of climate change, drought and its effects on the human condition. My body leaves you drop by drop. … I evaporate like moistness from your

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Meeting Nicolás Marticorena was like stumbling upon a kindred spirit. Ever since I saw his work at the group exhibition Pasajero in Santiago de Chile, I was captivated by his remarkable aesthetic sensibility towards the landscape and his generous heart for the stories of the people living in it. His poetic speech and passion for analog photography captivated me during our coffee meeting, where we bonded over our shared concerns about the environmental crisis in Petorca — one of the most infamous and affected territories by the Chilean water crisis. I am delighted to share our conversation after several months of keeping it secretly in my journals.

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