The immortalization of Chile invisible

Dear lector:

This time I’ll be talking about the immortalization of Chile invisible in the decade of the 80 and “La Asociación de Fotógrafos Independientes (AFI)”.

As you can see in the page “memoria chilena”, the AFI was born in the context of the military dictatorship with the objective of promoting the deeds of the unprotected photographers whose images portrayed the life in years of military dictatorship and denouncing the abuses committed by the military forces. Including Álvaro Hoppe G, the photographer and author of the attached picture.

The photographies began to appear around 1981, in the military dictatorship in Santiago. The picture is a wall of the 80s appointed as “Afiche de los desaparecidos”. Like its name suggests, the picture represents an important issue in Chile, the catch, torture and forced disappearance of people who think differently.

I very much like this picture because evidence the resilience of people in the face of the extreme injustice. Also is an affirmative picture on memory in a country that pushes for forgetting.