Who is Martín Chambi

El doodle de Google de hoy recuerda al célebre fotógrafo peruano Martín Chambi Martín Chambi, uno de los más grandes fotógrafos peruanos del siglo XX Martín Chambi: quién fue el hombre que Google evoca hoy en su doodle Quién es Martín Chambi, el peruano que Google recuerda hoy con un Doodle Who is Martín Chambi, the Peruvian that Google remembers today with a Doodle Throughout today Google will have on the cover of its search engine a Doodle in homage to the great Peruvian photographer, Martín Chambi , creator of portraits and images of the Andean world during the first decades of the last century. Chambi had a peasant origin, since it comes from the town of Coaza, in the Peruvian Andes. He was born 129 years ago , on November 5, 1891, in an area near Lake Titikaka in the department of Puno. The child Martín was shocked after his first contact with photography in the gold mine where his father worked, the Santo Domingo Mining Company. That contact left him marked and defined his vocation. Later he traveled to the Peruvian city of Arequipa where he learned the trade from his teacher and guide Don Max T. Vargas. There he continued his learning and photographic practice in the workshops of the Portal de Flores de la Plaza de Armas, until he concluded his stay in Arequipa, exhibiting, thanks to the patronage of his teacher, at the Artistic Center on October 12, 1917. Later he traveled, together with his wife, Manuela López Visa and their children Celia and Víctor, to the city of Sicuani, capital of the Province of Canchis, where he installed his own first studio and workshop. There was a great exploitation of alpaca wool and a strong textile impulse that he registers in his photographic work. A short time later, in 1920, he moved to Cusco where he settled professionally, attracted by its splendor and great past. There he displayed all his talent until his death and from where his work achieved international reach. Martín Chambi as a photojournalist He worked as a reporter for different Peruvian and world media. Among others, he worked for the Peruvian newspaper La Crónica and the Variedades and Mundial magazines. Also for the Argentine newspaper, La Nación during the years from 1918 to 1930. Finally, the United States magazine, National Geographic began to publish his photos in February 1938. The photographic legacy of Martín Chambi His grandson, Teo Allain Chambi, who directs the archive that collects and preserves his grandfather's work, wrote that "Martín Chambi reveals the daily and magical universe of Andean culture by giving the world his most intimate secret."

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