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‘I was censored for a long time’: the woman who photographed Chile’s sex workers and dissidents

From brothels to boxing rings, Paz Errázuriz’s tender images always challenged the Pinochet dictatorship. Now 81 years old – and ahead of a UK show – the spiky-haired artist recounts a career spent on the fringesWhen the Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz showed her first photobook to a well-known society photographer of the day, he told her “look, a housewife will never be a photographer”.“That’s what he said!” she laughs. “Imagine that was my beginning.” Today, aged 81, her work documenting life on the fringes of Chilean society sits in the collections of Tate Modern and MoMA in New York and in 2015 she represented Chile at the Venice Biennale. Continue reading...


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