winter
One of my favourite candid shots of Moni
el viejo en la plaza
The smaller towns surrounding La Paz are overwhelming populated by the elderly, as the young people go into the city to seek higherwages
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going nowhere
On the edge of the Salar Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia is a train graveyard, a rusting reminder of the region's former prosperity now decaying slowly into the desert.
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dreaming of steam
The most breathtaking aspect of the Altiplano in Bolivia is the extraordinary sense of emptiness. Old industrial artifacts like this train near Salar Uyuni seem to gaze out over the desert like sentinels of the past.