Ecomapu Travel

 Sergio Larraín (1931-2012) Chilean photographer :

« Une bonne image naît d’un état de grâce » [ source ]

Valparaíso  Pasaje Bavestrello  1952

Buenos Aires, 1957

Bolivia, 1958

Alger, 1959

Paris 1959

Paris 1959

Italia, Sicilia, 1959

Valparaíso, 1963

Valparaíso, 1963

Valparaíso, 1963

“You see, in our work of hunters of miracles we have the happiness of the magic, but also the impossibility to control it…we have to be open to the muse, as they used to say … and keep eating, clothing, paying the rent…etc. I suppose it has always been like this, when the kayak hunters went to the sea, they never knew if they were going to find the whales or a storm…when we try to control things completely, boredom establish its reign; and we degrade…and at the same time, life has to keep going, always…that is why to make a good use of the hunt [we need] wisdom. To get oil for the lamps, leather for the shoes and clothing, [to] make harpoons with the bones, etc. To keep this miracle of life, in happiness, in tenderness, forming children, preserving elders, listening elders…

In the eternal moment which is reality Agnès, you have to give time to rest, to renew, as with the land, if you exhaust it, by permanently asking fruits, you disorganise the rhythm…the breathing…Silence, peace and loneliness are necessary to receive inspiration, [to] be empty for the new…for the reign to come, daily…adios.”

from Larrain’s 1987 letter to Agnès Sire