Martín Chambi (1891–1973) was a Peruvian photographer of Indigenous Quechua origin who established his studio in Cusco in 1920. His glass-plate negatives document Andean communities, architecture, archaeological sites and social hierarchies through portraits and landscapes. Darwin selects Chambi for constructing a photographic record of Peru from within, connecting his historical archive to Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, who travelled to Cusco in 1990 to print Chambi’s original negatives.
