Photographing Chile’s Enduring Rifts: Part I

In the week leading up to Chile’s 2013 Presidential elections, the photographer Jon Lowenstein and his brother, the writer Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, travelled to the country to document this unique, historic period. Forty years ago, General Augusto Pinochet and his military overthrew President Salvador Allende; today, even after the Chilean transition to democracy and Pinochet’s death, tensions remain.