About Ricardo

Ricardo Carrasco is a Chilean photographer who documents the peoples and ancestral cultures of South America. He also feels a deep interest in nature photography, Archeology and Paleontology, as well as in sports and adventure photography. He even feels comfortable in the studio, usually capturing images of nature or archeological artifacts and other finds.

"I am deeply interested in subjects dealing with man and its environment, the natural world and everything having to do with life outdoors. That's why I have travelled to remote places of Chile and some countries in South America, where the untapped nature is a challenge to the daily survival of peoples who have decided to make those places their home.

"I don't remember the moment I started writing about my travels, to prepare articles about the subjects that atracted me. It was perhaps that these sites produced emotions so intense that writing was a way of dealing with them. Like in the expedition to Espíritu Pampa, the last citadelle of the High Urubamba, in Peru: an Inca fortress where the great Manco Inca hid to later invade the troops of conquistadores who were surrounding Cusco.

Ricardo feel at home both in a long desert trek or in a journey in the kajak. “I like for expeditions to have historical reference. Not just the fact of navigating a lake or doing a certain route in the Andes. It is important to give a historical aspect to the photographs and texts; to transport ourselves in time and repeat the journeys that others, on a given time, guided by their dreams or their faith, and without high tech equipment, dared to embark on. Like the route of the Jesuits across Lago Todos Los Santos in Chile, where the cruzaders hoped to discover the mythic City of the Cesars towards Argentina, yet only found devastation and death".

Chile is a long stretch of land offering infinite possibilities to photographers. Consider the unique characteristics of the light that you find in the Andes mountains, so different from the light of the Puna, or of the one in the valleys and salty plains of the Altiplano. On the other hand the light of the cloudy rainforest or the frozen cordillera, or simply the light that is trapped in a spider web in the morning subjugates, making the challenge to be infinite.