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Post Category → Chile

“Werken”: Bernardo Oyarzun’s Mapuche Messenger

posted in Art, Chile on July 9, 2017 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

The video below is “Werken”, an installation by Bernardo Oyarzun in the Chilean Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. It consists of 1500 masks made by 40 artisans from the country’s Mapuche indigenous group, Chile’s largest.

Crested Caracara

posted in Argentina, Birds, Chile on July 28, 2014 by Bob Ramsak 3 Comments

Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) in Argentine Patagonia.

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The World’s Most Beautiful Cemeteries – Punta Arenas, Chile: a Tour in 19 Photos

posted in Chile on September 25, 2013 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

About a year and a half ago, CNN correspondent Bruce Holmes came up with a list of 10 of the world’s most beautiful cemeteries. Purely by happenstance I visited two on his list within 13 days of one another; the second of the pair, the municipal cemetery in Punta Arenas, Chile, just 15 days before his… Continue reading →

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This is BobRamsak.com, a public notebook by Bob Ramsak.

I’m a long-time journalist, photographer and researcher driven by passions for environmental, social and refugee justice. I’ve visited 62 countries and write something and make pictures (almost) every day. This site is a notebook and photolog where I track and (sometimes) comment on those interests, journal my travels and log my current obsessions. At the moment the most dominant one is my renewed passion for birding and bird photography.

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