Lizzy Karp
Three women inside their
newly built house.
Taken Saturday, August 4, 1973.
I came across this area by chance and started to walk around and talk to the people who were very friendly. They had taken over the land because it was vacant and they were without places to live.
First, they set up tents and then collected wood to start making their little one room houses. It was very cold and damp but they were cheerful and proud of making their own way for their families. Ý
Simon Tang
Woman and Cigarrette
at Campamento Erich Schnake.
Taken Saturday, August 4, 1973.
Dreams were being built with pieces of scrap wood, tin, cloth and a deep sense of national dignity and belonging.
This "campamentos" were strongholds of Allende's popular movement and were thus extremely repressed during the days of the military coup of September 11, 1973 and Pinochet's 16 year military dictatorship.
Evelyn Murialdo
The heart full of flags.
Taken Tuesday, September 4, 1973.
This photograph taken a week prior to the military coup portrays the people of Santiago commemorating the third anniversary of the popular government in downtown Santiago.
Men, women, youth, students and workers carry Chilean flags and the flags of the U.P., Salvador Allende's Popular Unity coalition government.
