Martín Chambi (1891-1973)

"Without a doubt, Martín Chambi’s images laid bare all the social complexity of the Andes.
Those images place us in the heart of highland feudalism, in the haciendas of the large land-holders,
with their servants and concubines, in the colonial processions of contrite and drunken throngs,
and in the smoky chicherías. . . . Of Martín Chambi it is enough to say that in those thirty-some years of photographing, there was no corner of the Cuzco universe he did not appropriate or immortalize."
Mario Vargas Llosa, from the Foreword