Potosi, Bolivia
A photographer’s travels in Bolivia and Peru, working on a documentary project about miners.
by Irina Zhorov
In 2006 and 2007 I traveled around South America with a heavy typewriter and a bag of film, intermittently working and settling in places I liked.
I came back with piles of papers and negatives, a strange Spanish accent, and a slew of projects to do. One of these which I’m finally getting around to now is a photo documentary project about the miners of Potosi, Bolivia.
A place of superlatives both exciting and terrifying – highest city in the world, used to be richest city in the world, biggest silver deposit, poorest city in Bolivia now – Potosi is a historical wonder struggling to stay afloat both in reality and in our collective memories.
I want to tell its story as it stands now, keeping in mind its historical context and its uncertain future.
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