Posted by Andrew on March 22nd 2010

Canon EOS 350D, 18-55mm lens @ 18mm, ISO 100, f20, 1/160 second. Converted to black and white in Photoshop CS 3.
On my first trip to Bolivia I was certain of one thing – I wanted to go to the Salar de Uyuni. I had wanted to go there ever since seeing a Discovery Channel documentary narrated by an Australian photojournalist who travelled across the Salar by jeep, on the trail of the legendary Butch Cassidy and the Sundance.
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Posted by on June 16th 2008
In August 2004 I spent a few days in a charming, remote village called Iruya in northwest Argentina. Imagine my surprise when I recognised the town in Guiness’ latest TV ad. A quick search on google confirmed that the location was indeed Iruya, that the ad is Guiness’ most expensive to date, and that the entire campaign cost a colossal ten million pounds (approximately 20 million US dollars).

This is how Iruya looks when you approach it along the dirt road from Humahuaca.
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Posted by on April 19th 2008

Sunset at Punta Sal, Peru – one of my latest pictures
I came across Adam Blenford’s blog StampCollector and I was immediately intrigued by his posts about Argentina, especially this one and this one. They’re interesting, well researched and intelligently written. It’s no surprise then that he turns out to be a journalist on a six month trip around South America.
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Posted by on October 25th 2007
I was searching for photos of Argentina on Photoshelter and I came across the work of Marco Vernaschi. His work interested me because he had shot a story about the Quechua that live in northwest Argentina and mine salt from the Salinas Grandes (a large salt pan in the Andes).