Carlos Jiménez Cahua's haunting photos of Lima, Peru
I photographed the landscape of Lima with varying degrees of man's development present. Lima is a desert, but despite this, it has one of the largest populations of any city, and it's growing too rapidly, so much so that people are forced to make their home anywhere they can, yielding pueblos jóvenes, or young towns, in areas that were previously completely undeveloped. Yet because it's a desert, there where they develop, there is no removal of trees or brush, they make their home upon the raw earth itself. For the people of Lima, this makes their relationship to the land both more intimate and humbling than usual, particularly when compared to their first-world contemporaries.
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What a strange quality of light. I wonder is that fog or smog?
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of fog in Peru. I remember reading that water is harvested from the fog there because it is a desert. It's a huge city so I would imagine that there is also a lot of smog.
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