Walking Around Santiago Second Walk Photographs Photographs 1988-1994 1988-1994
Marcelo Marcelo Montecino Montecino
For Tomås who’s kept me on my toes for many years
The Rex
1988 –1994 Santiago, Chile In early 1988 I returned to Chile after a long stay in the US. After covering the proxy “low intensity” wars in Central America, I wanted to live in Santiago and photograph that year’s plebiscite in Chile, which would decide whether Augusto Pinochet would stay in power or there was to be democratic elections. Anything could happen. I knew this would be the last big story I would cover. I came back to an effervescent country. In 1988 and 1989 there were of almost daily demonstrations, tear gas, and confrontations in the street calling for the resignation of Pinochet. As a working photojournalist I covered most of them. But this is not a book about that historic moment. I’ve included a few images just to set the tone. This is a book about Santiago, that, in retrospect, has been the main theme of my work. I was also beginning to discover how little I knew my people and my city. Soon the excitement of politics and demonstrations began to wane and I began to shoot my own obsessions: the small back streets, flea markets, that curious sensation of winter in Santiago where you can never shake the chill, the smoky shanties, hospitals... I wanted to document the city of my birth. These photographs are my “walking around pictures” of that period of my life. It’s a gloomy book that reflects the present rather than those delirious days when we shook off a dictatorship. Marcelo Montecino
The Sycophants
Human Rights Demonstration
Pious chat between Minister of Justice and Military Vicar at a Te Deum
The occupationtary Parade
Gen. Sinclair
Soldiers running away with the bank
Game of Chance
General Cemetery
The Elevator
The old Nazis
Paseo Ahumada
Downtown
Merced Street
Car minders
Singing for your lunch
Franklin ea market
Estaci贸n Central
All Saints Day, Catholic Cemetery
Catholic Cemetery
Diez de julio
Ahumada Street
Catholic Cemetery
McIver Street
The house of the sick
Hot Chestnuts salesman
The poet Armando Uribe
Metro
Forgotten Location
Sad cueca
Frnklin Flea Market
The metro
Vivaceta neighborhood
Consttotution Square
Winter
Winter in Santiago
Transplants in Nu単oa
La Palmera
Catedral Street
Yrarrรกzabal Street
Juani
Allende’s funeral