This book begins as a journey into "oblivion". Then, over the photos, the brief opens. Patrick Zachmann, of Magnum, captures amnesia Chilean Pinochet years. His photographs take us in the north, in the heart of the desert. Where the past has been swept. Along Road No. 5, the Pan American, he went on the trail of a "huge memory hole." A Pisagua, the former prison cells harboring more suffering opponents: behind bars, sauna and the billiard room of a hotel. In the Santiago Stadium, fans now seem to have forgotten the martyrdom of the 15,000 crammed into the stands in 1973 and tortured to death.
Zachmann pays tribute to those lost through portraits collected by two photographers Chilean Claudio Gomez and Rodrigo Perez. To recall the desert before there were men. Zachmann, through his writings, also leaves one's own story, that of his grandparents died at Birkenau. "There, I discovered the importance of body, burial. Without memory, there is no mourning possible. "
Chile, roads memory, Editions Marval, 52 shots.
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