In 2002, Arnulf Kost ("le berlinois") and I, we visited the north part of Chile. We rented a car at Antofagasta (by the Pacific coast) and we drove inside, direction Atacama Desert, known as the driest area in the world. We visited, Sierra Gorda, Chiu-Chiu (small towns with inca people) and Calama. From this town, we went to Chuquicamata, where there is a large copper mine. In that time, it was possible to visit the plant. And finally, we reached San Pedro de Atacama, at the heart of the desert. Very interesting, we passed by some ghost cities. At the begining of the 20th century, foreign companies built some cities for the extraction of 'salpetre' (potassium nitrate) very sought as fertiliser and gunpowder in North America and Europe. Chacabuco was one of these cities. By 1940s, the salpetre could be replaced by another product and, therefore, these cities were abandoned.
We also visited Toconao, near San Pedro de Atacama, and the Moon Valey at the same location. Finally, far from the Atacama desert, there are some pictures of Valparaiso, whose old part has several very colored houses.
I printed in my wet lab the BW pictures here presented. I used two Canon EOS film cameras, one for BW (T-Max 100 film) and the second one for chrome slides (Fuji Sensia). I scanned the BW photos with the Canon Scan 9000F Mk II at 400 dpi and the slides at 3200 dpi. Then, the pictures were adjusted and a little sharpened.