From literally freezing for a shot of the Atacama’s starry skies to riding through the world’s driest desert, two Finnish filmmakers go to extremes for the camera.
Category Archives: Travel
Photo essay: Polanco Graffestival 2012
“Santiago has a great graffiti scene as well, but in Valpraíso you have everything – there is a strong creative energy,” Camilo Barra, A.K.A. Zopa, told ThisisChile. “You have international artists, but more than that, you have people playing guitar in the streets, people taking photographs. It’s really vibrant.”
Graffiti festival puts Chilean community on world art map
Street artists from around Chile and Latin America converged on Valparaíso last weekend to transform a lower economic neighborhood into the city’s newest travel destination.
Driving Chile’s ghost town alley
Two roads traverse the nitrate pampa, a stretch of desert once the heart of the Chilean economy, but now a graveyard for over 80 ruined factories and towns.
Crossing the Andes by bike
In July 2011, Morrigan McCarthy and Alan Winslow embarked on a three year project to ride their bicycles over 30,000 miles (48,280 km) across four continents and 50 countries, documenting the lives of twenty-somethings around the world through photographs, video, audio and writing.
‘Undiscovered Chile’ – top travel destinations in 2012
This is Chile talks about some of the lesser-known of Chile’s outdoor destinations with professional landscape photographer and tour guide, David Gysel.
