| Patagonia 2008-2011 | ...a photographic project in progress |
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| René Muñoz on his property, five kilometers from where the Baker 2 dam is scheduled to be built. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| René Muñoz prepares to lasso a cow to butcher and sell its meat. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Blood on the ground where a cow was butchered. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| René Muñoz and Andres Casanova share a meal after a day of work. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| René Muñoz and Andres Casanova transport meat for sale in the nearby town of Caleta Tortel. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| René Muñoz takes his boat down the Baker river. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Rene Muñoz speaks on the radio as a lamb dying of hypothermia rests by his stove. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A cat contemplates a newborn lamb dead of hypothermia. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Hernan Guelet, whose land lies beside the proposed site of the Pascua I dam, disembarks at his home with his family. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Hernan Guelet and his son Julio. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Julio Guelet takes his afternoon tea. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Hernan Guelet and his son fish in the Quetru lake. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Gabino Diaz rides along the southern highway toward his home. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Gabino Diaz drinks mate with his friend Ricardo Rivera. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Roast meat lunch at Ricardo Rivera's house. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Dogs tied up at a house in the Maiten sector. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A huemul, an endangered species of deer who appears on Chile's national shield, eats plants by the side of the southern highway. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A cow carcass semi-consumed by wild animals. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Villa O'higgins. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Tourist information stand in Cerro Castillo. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A boy dressed as a gaucho plays the accordion during the folkloric festival of Cerro Castillo. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A group of backpackers camp in Cerro Castillo. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Arturo Quinto walks on his property on the banks of the Baker River in the Los Ñadis. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Arturo Quinto looks out the window of his house on the banks of the Baker River in the Los Ñadis.©Jorge Uzon |
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| A view of the Ñadis River. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Aquilino Olivares cross the Baker River in a rowboat to get to his home near the confluence of the Baker and Nef rivers. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Aquilino Olivares drinks mate in the early morning at his home near the confluence of the Baker and Nef rivers. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Aquilino Olivares speaks on the radio, the only means of long-distance communication available to many residents of Chilean Patagonia. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Aquilino Olivares gallops his horse on his land near the confluence of the Baker and Nef rivers. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A landscape near the Ñadis River. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A sign announcing arrival in Cochrane, a small city near the Baker. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A recently butchered pig shares a boat with a dog on the Vargas River. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Andrés Casanova, on board the Matarangui boat, chats with a resident of the Baker River. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Woods on the banks of the Baker River. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Andrés Casanova rests on his boat. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Erminio Orellana receives the Matarangui boat at the end of its trip up the Baker River in Ventisquero Norte. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Erminio Orellana draws water from a well in Ventisquero Norte. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| René Muñoz prepares to saddle his horse at his home in Ventisquero Norte. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A man fishes in a lagoon formed by the flooding of the Cochrane river. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| View of the Cochrane River overflowing. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| The El Manzano bridge swamped by the Baker river. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A pickup truck drives past the end of the road in the Colonia Norte sector. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Hernán Guelet, together with his wife Carmen Vidal and his son Julio Guelet, drives home in his boat on Lake Quetru. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A child jumps with the Lucas Bridges Mountain in the background near the border with Argentina on Estancia Valle Chacabuco. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A child plays near the border with Argentina on Estancia Valle Chacabuco. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Children protect themselves from the wind produced by a helicopter in Cochrane. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A man drives through the Estancia Valle Chacabuco. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Elvira Reyes prepares to feed two orphaned calves in El Maiten, at two hours on horseback from the end of the road. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Elvira Reyes readies her horse for riding at her home in El Maiten, at two hours on horseback from the end of the road. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Elvira Reyes drinks yerba mate tea at her home in El Maiten, at two hours on horseback from the end of the road. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Porfirio Diaz, a Catholic priest, readies a goat for slaughter at his family home in El Maiten. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A cow skeleton near Cochrane. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Gabino Diaz looks for his sheep from a mountain in El Maiten. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Gauchos herd cattle in Colonia Norte. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Gauchos herd cattle in the Baker Valley. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Young men prepare to ride their horses in Caleta Tortel. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A young man leads a horse in Caleta Tortel. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Residents walk along a wooden walkway in Caleta Tortel. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A woman walks along a wooden walkway in Caleta Tortel. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A man looks out over Villa O'Higgins. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Residents dry clothes in Villa O'Higgins. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A passenger of the "Quetru" ferry looks at the moon reflected on the waters of Lake O'Higgins. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A family drinks yerba mate tea in Villa O'Higgins. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A house with roses in Cochrane. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Residents of Cochrane play in a local park. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A man works on his truck stranded on the Southern Highway. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A family drive through the Estancia Valle Chacabuco. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| A man drives through the Southern Higway. ©Jorge Uzon |
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| Arriving in Balmaceda. ©Jorge Uzonn |
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