SkateVida Julio Bustos

The History of in La Araucanía

the most suitable place for skating. There they could be seen performing powerslides and tricks Skateboarding as a subculture of like the “”, drawing the attention of other young people who later became interested in contemporary societies in the adverse this sport. On the other hand, the beginnings of skateboarding in the Araucanía Region are marked by context of Southern Chile, Araucanía Region the difficulties faced by enthusiasts to access and skate accessories, because at that time there were no specialized stores selling this kind of products and these could only be found in the city of Santiago, which led to the resale of used accessories, well-intentioned gifts, borrowings and friends that ultimately supported the practice. At the same time, skateboarding The skateboarding in Chile had its origin around the 70s in the city of Santiago and since then it videos in VHS format, which were very hard to find, were crucial for learning tricks, as well has grown exponentially over the last three decades, to become today an urban culture that as for the dissemination and comprehension of this subculture that involves different musical is socially extended by bringing together a large number of people. In Chile, since its inception, and fashion styles, particular behaviors and ideologies that in short helped to create an ideal the skateboarding has been linked to the big cities, due to their urban development, arriving atmosphere for a better understanding of this sport. later in the 90s to the south of Chile. Consequently, it can be stated that the development of this discipline has been closely related to the transformation of the contemporary city, since Under this dynamic the first local riders appeared, who promoted and gave substance to this sport requires adequate urban construction conditions and architecture in order to be several generations of skaters, becoming true forerunners and role models for others. Some practiced. exponents of the 90s, who should be mentioned, were: César Arriagada, Edmundo Venegas, Cristián Arjona, Ronald Schwartensky, David Espinoza, Milton Parra, Pablo Candia, Marco Although skateboarding is considered a high-risk sport, it is not necessarily related to the Díaz, Joao Williamson, Mario Felipe Troncoso, Juan Millanao, Rodrigo Cruz and Jaime Ibañez, execution of extreme sports practices. Rather, the development of extreme practice responds among others. Consequently, in mid-2000, small local markets emerged, which brought to the skill and inclination of those who practice this sport. At the same time, insofar as it accessories to make them available to the community, in addition to providing sponsorship encompasses a subculture as well as an urban sport, skateboarding is not in the hierarchy of to prominent riders who represented these stores, such as the Subversivo store and later the values possessed by traditional sports, which have as ideology competition, achievement, Eufory store in Temuco and South Force store in Pitrufquén. These stores distributed boards, scoring, etc., by contrast, it is considered that the individual’s self-fulfillment and free expression accessories, clothing, shoes and VHS, thus contributing to the dissemination of the American are the value in itself, being the very purpose to enjoy the ride, the culture and the friendship skate culture, which was brought to Chile by these entrepreneurs who helped to support the that are produced and found in the places where this sport practice is appreciated. It should activity and its members. be noted that the skate culture makes no difference between the socio-economic conditions of individuals, so that people from different socio-economic conditions can share the same When taking a tour of the most suitable spots or locations for skating from the beginning in space. the Araucanía Region, you will find the main square of Temuco, Ekono supermarket, Unimarc supermarket, Teodoro Schmidt square, Dagoberto Godoy square, Caupolicán tower, Subaru In the Araucanía Region it marks its beginning in the early 90s, approximately between 1993 technical service, Los Talletes street, “La Super Nuclear” underground spot, Los Caciques and 1994 in the city of Temuco. The first skaters in the area were the Fuentealba brothers, who multipurpose court, Corvalán Park and the amphitheater in Padre Las Casas, “La Vitrina” brought this innovative discipline from Canada, the country where they had previously lived in Angol, the multipurpose court in Pitrufquén and Gorbea, Pumahue school, Curarrehue for some time. The testimonies of the oldest local riders tell that these brothers showed their missionary school N°3 and the legendary “Plaza de las Banderas” (Flags square). Particularly, unique acrobatics and tricks on “fish-shaped” skateboards (the name given to an old-school the latter greatly encouraged and promoted the development of skateboarding as a sport board at the time) in the surroundings of the Sevilla shopping center, which at the time was and as a culture, with the ability to bring together various young people from the city and the region who were claiming this type of space for themselves, in an act of appropriation Although the construction of skate parks has responded to social demands and the intention of the urban furniture that met the most suitable conditions for practicing. In addition, it of local governments to regulate the appropriation and deterioration of urban space, they has represented a favorable place for cultural exchange and for the oral transmission of have not been designed based on the climatic conditions of the Araucanía Region and, in knowledge, where anecdotes and tips to achieve tricks were shared, and very hard-to-find general, of Southern Chile. The territory is composed of temperate rainforests and mountain accessories –at that time– were sold, borrowed or given away. ranges that produce a hostile climate for much of the year and that, ultimately, atrophies the infrastructure of the skate parks and makes it difficult for skaters to practice the sport. In the case of the municipalities surrounding the foothills, such as Pucón, Villarrica and Under this premise it could be concluded that the sport performance achieved by riders varies Curarrehue, skateboarding also began to be practiced in the 90s, largely thanks to the according to the natural conditions that the environment has, that is, in more suitable urban influence of the local tourist market, which generated the presence of a large numberof sites and under more suitable climatic conditions a higher level of skill and ability would be immigrants, foreign visitors and Chilean tourists visiting the area. In other municipalities, such achieved. as Gorbea, Pitrufquén, Lautaro, Vilcún, Victoria, Collipulli and Angol, the practice of this sport began somewhat later, from the year 2000 onwards. On the other hand, the skateboarding Skating in Southern Chile means that skaters have to devise methods to meet their needs and scene in the municipality of Padre Las Casas has always been linked to the city of Temuco, carry out their motivations, which have led them to self-manage access to public and private since in the beginning they made up just one big city, and finally this helped to promote the spaces for skating in indoor sites, multipurpose courts, and abandoned places, which are all culture of skateboarding in the area, thus emerging great exponents of the sport in Padre las portrayed in this work. Casas such as Rodolfo Escobar, Ángelo Urra and Osvaldo Godoy, among others. Skate Vida: The History of Skateboarding in La Araucanía is a collection of photographs by In the strict sense, the skateboarding is a street sport and this is linked both to the streets and to various local authors that testify through the subjective view, part of the beginnings and skate parks. In 1979 the first private skate park was created in Santiago under the management development of this urban sport par excellence. of José Ramón Bañados. However, the creation of public skate parks in Chile had not been possible until 2007, when the Los Reyes Park was built in Santiago. Since then, this initiative has gradually expanded throughout the Chilean territory from the north to the extreme south of Chile. The creation of public skate parks in the Araucanía Region is subsequent and responds to the need of local governments to regulate this street practice, which takes squares and uses the urban elements of the cities, as well as to solve the collective demands that were claimed from 2008 throughout the Araucanía Region, and which called for massive protests demanding Felipe Aravena Valderas the construction of public skate parks. Under these circumstances, an urban culture with great Spring, 2020 social capacity became noticeable.

In this way, skaters have organized themselves into formal groups as legal entities requesting funds to build obstacles or to demand the construction of a public skate park, which has been taking place, as mentioned above, gradually from the construction of this type of spaces in the central and northern part of Chile. In the last fifteen years, the intention of local governments to provide public spaces to the community has been evident, with the intention of promoting and fostering sport, in addition to responding to the collective demands that arise both from young people and from civil society in general. “When people see a photo or video footage they don’t really know that behind each one of those photos and video footage there is a long unpredictable story; you can have a breakdown or you can end up in a fraternal hug and celebrate or you can have an accident. In the end, the pressure you put on yourself is up to you.”

Esteban Florio, Ojo de Pez #7 Video Magazine, 2003.

in Valdivia. Not only is Manuel in the memory of skateboarding, Carlos Luna was murdered in The emotion in focus Gorbea, while Samuel Pino died by his own hand. Underlying the regional brotherhood is a certain anxiety about who will be the next.

After all, it is Julio Bustos who is telling us about the emphasis of this History through his images, Passions go beyond vocations, disciplines, social guidelines in force and rules established for inserted in the documentary records of the other photographers. On our side, Felipe and I tempt universal coexistence. Passions are personal and intense, they do not give in, they take your the words –although Felipe has indeed navigated the boards while I can only imagine this passion life ahead and they do not notice other limits than those that one wants to cross with them. from the photographs that I am displaying. I see the zenithal views of the skate parks, the long Passions flood the being, the spirit, the body that practices them, they dominate it and lead it, shadows of the sunset, the streetlights at night, a portable ramp at Aníbal Pinto square, the they demand it while they teach it, they threaten it and they reward it at the same time. Rigor and woodwork that is being carrying out at Puesco, I see the succession of tricks, the competitions, perseverance make up passions, just as much as madness and the leap into the void: The ‘ollie’, the groups of friends celebrating an encounter raising their beers. I see how the rain puddles in language, or the ‘shoot first, ask later’ by our photographer already experienced in compose a surreal image on a court, although I already know that the open-air spots are not action, Julio Bustos. This text addresses both passions, skateboarding in La Araucanía and Julio’s the ideal scenario in our rainy south. I enjoy how this mixed record of visual stories, containing photographs. objective and emotional data, unfolds.

History breaks down over time into very similar layers, following a model perhaps not formulated I am surprised by Julio Bustos’ images once again, which emerge from within, not as those of the but constant, which repeats itself: Origins, first steps, development, and consolidation, deployment willful witness who discovers a subject and pursues it, but as those of the author who shoots from towards new areas, maturity, renewal –or the end. As such, the History of Skateboarding begins the epicenter of the passion he is sharing with us. But it is not only his passion for skateboarding with the land surfers, supposedly in California in the late 50s, to appear in Chile twenty years later that intercedes in his camera, it is also his passion for photography that intercedes in his scenes, in (quite soon, by the standards of the time) with the board of Tony Sarroca, creative advertising the framing, the moment and the light that are interwoven in the identity of his main actors. How agent, son of the legendary Antonio Sarroca from the J. Walter Thompson (JWT) Chile, who was do you make your subject subtract himself, become self-absorbed, detach himself from you when my friend. Under Tony’s direction “the first skate park was built in 1979 in Santiago, expanding the you are taking the photographs? How do you become invisible but at the same time embrace practice now turned into a discipline. A particular discipline however, because from the beginning the subject as your best friend when you are taking the photographs? You have to know how to the spirit of the skateboarding has been rebellious, non-systemic if not anti-systemic, an activity photograph –that’s for sure–, but you also have to be a photographer, you have to be passionate first criticized and then incorporated to try to tame it: Something like graffiti, which today is offered about photography, because without this reciprocal skateboard-camera passion, all you will appropriate walls to stop it from being inappropriate,” as I wrote down a couple of years ago. have left is a picture, a good picture perhaps, but with the emotion out of focus.

From Santiago –and passing through intermediate places, perhaps–, skateboarding jumps to La Araucanía in the early 90s, as Felipe Aravena tells us, and spreads all over the region throughout Mario Fonseca the new millennium. At the very beginning skateboarding is persecuted, as it attempts against Gorbea, october 2020 “public landscape architecture”, but after intense mobilizations (2008) skate parks begin to be erected in the main cities. Some of these skate parks are geometrically interesting such as that of Pichi Cautín; others are generous such as that of Costanera de Cautín, in the San Antonio sector in the city of Temuco; others are spacious but simple such as that of Victoria, whose austere geometry seen from the drone evokes a board; and others are sensitive such as the one that runs under the highway in Pitrufquén, which bears the name of Manuel Asenjo, who died in an accident Photography index

TEMUCO 2002-2020

7 Conguillio National Park. 2019 33 Skaters at Teodoro Schmidt square, Temuco. 2010 (Omar Aguayo) 51 Cesar López, Pichi Cautín. 2017 71 Gustavo Verdugo Frontside Noseslide, Plaza de las Banderas (Flags square). 2017

13 Cristóbal Roco at the Gorbea multipurpose court. 2016 34 Samuel Pino Ollie at Teodoro Schmidt square. 2010 (Omar Aguayo) 52 Daniel Phasten Frontside Crooked, Pichi Cautín skate park. 2018 72 Portrait of Eric Cifuentes, Temuco. 2017

15 Torre Campanario (Bell Tower), Temuco. 2020 34 Portrait of Juan Valdés, Temuco. 2010 (Omar Aguayo) 53 Elton Soto Noseblunt to Indy Grab Out, Pichi Cautín skate park. 2018 73 Eric Cifuentes Out, Temuco. 2017

16 Skate at Teodoro Schmidt square, Temuco. 2002 (Lucio Silva) 35 Magazines given to the public, Teodoro Schmidt square. 2009 (Omar Aguayo) 54 Javier Navarrete 180° Boneless, Pichi Cautín skate park. 2019 74 Javier Carrasco , Caupolicán Tower. 2017

17 Skateboarding Championship, Carahue. 2002 (Eliezer Fierro) 36 Portrait of Edmundo Venegas. Temuco, 2020. 55 San Antonio skate park, Temuco. 2019 75 Spot Check, Temuco. 2017

18 Obstacles, Carahue. 2002 (Eliezer Fierro) 37 Edmundo Venegas Frontside Air, Dagoberto Godoy square. 2008 (Omar Aguayo) 56 Portrait of Martín Jaques, San Antonio skate park. 2020 77 Portrait of Darío Migueles at Marsano Building, Temuco. 2020

19 Altamira-Los Aromos neighborhood connection, Temuco. 2003 38 Milton Parra Frontside Boardslide, Dagoberto Godoy square. 2009 (Omar Aguayo) 56 Martín Jaques, 360° Backside Nosegrab, San Antonio skate park. 2020 78 Sebastián Ríos skating in the Feria Pinto neighborhood. 2017

20 Felipe Carrasco Frontside Nosegrind, Los Talletes street. 2003 39 Skateboarding championship, Germán Becker Municipal Stadium. 2009 (Omar Aguayo) 57 Family helping Martín Jaques, San Antonio skate park. 2020 79 Tomás Fernández Ollie on a bench, Temuco Main Square. 2016

21 David Rohrberger Caveman, Los Talletes street. 2003 40 Felipe Aravena Backside Feeble at Former Bridgestone Technical Service, Temuco. 2009 (Omar Aguayo) 59 Samuel Pino (R.I.P.) Frontside Lipslide, Líder supermarket. 2016 80 Portrait of Ronald Schwartensky, Líder supermarket. 2019

22 Emile Gay Backside Crooked, Avenida Alemania. 2004 (Emile Gay) 40 Esteban Soto on a bike, Temuco. 2009 (Omar Aguayo) 60 Portrait of Yeico Sandoval, Sodimac Botánica. 2018 81 Adjusting base for ramp, Líder supermarket. 2019

23 David Espinoza, Fabián Merino and Emile Gay, Las Banderas square. 2005 (Emile Gay) 41 Portrait of Emile Gay, Labranza. 2020 61 Eric Cifuentes 360° flip, Sodimac Botánica. 2018 82 Tomás Rojas arguing with a security guard, Líder supermarket. 2019

24 Venturelli Mini Ramp, Temuco. 2006 (David Espinoza) 42 Eliezer Fierro and Sebastián Moraga checking files on a camera, Temuco. 2009 (Omar Aguayo) 61 Cristóbal Roco and Eric Cifuentes going away, Sodimac Botánica. 2018 83 Tomás Rojas Backside Tailslide to Fakie, Líder supermarket. 2019

25 Julio Bustos Frontside Smith, Pumahue school. 2004. 43 Fierro Brothers, Claudio Fica and Pablo Sepúlveda, Germán Becker Municipal Stadium. 2009 (Omar Aguayo) 62 Eric Cifuentes, wounded hand, Sodimac Botánica. 2018 84 Pía Godoy on a ramp, Temuco. 2020

26 Eliezer Fierro, file display on camera, Temuco. 2006 (Omar Aguayo) 44 Víctor Estay 360° Flip, Inacap Institute. 2010 (Omar Aguayo) 63 Eric Cifuentes, wounded hands, Sodimac Botánica. 2018 85 Portrait of Pía Godoy, Temuco. 2020

27 Skate brand stickers, Temuco. 2010 (David Espinoza) 45 Public skate parks protest march, Temuco. 2018 64 Waxed concrete surface, Temuco. 2019 86 Portrait of Pablo Villagrán at Temuco Dreams Casino. 2018

28 Juan Millanao and David Espinoza, Dagoberto Godoy square. 2009 46 Emile Gay arguing with a policeman in the public skate parks protest march, Temuco. 2008 (Emile Gay) 65 Osvaldo Godoy Backside Tailslide on wet floor, Temuco. 2019 87 Felipe Vásquez 180° Backside at Temuco Dreams Casino. 2018

29 Luis Fierro and David Espinoza, Da Ledge construction, Temuco. 2010 (Omar Aguayo) 47 Pichi Cautín skate park, Temuco. 2018 66 Skate at Universidad de La Frontera in winter. 2017 88 Wilson Espinoza at Dreams Casino, Temuco. 2019

30 David Espinoza, Da Ledge construction, Temuco. 2010 (Omar Aguayo) 48 Juan José Nauto, Pichi Cautín skate park. 2017 67 Nicolás Ponce Frontside Overcrook on a wooden box, Universidad de La Frontera. 2017 89 Valeria Brevis, Plaza de Las Banderas (Flags square), Temuco. 2020

31 Nicolás Saldías Frontside 5-0 in Da Ledge, OPS championship. 2010 (Omar Aguayo) 49 Graffiti on canvas “Skate Sureño”, Pichi Cautín skate park. 2017 69 Darío Migueles 360° Flip among puddles of water, Universidad de La Frontera. 2017 90 Social protests in Chile. October, 2019

32 Pitrufquén-Gorbea connection, Teodoro Schmidt square. 2010 (Omar Aguayo) 50 Sebastián Ríos teaching how to , Pichi Cautín skate park. 2017 70 Tomás Fernández, tiredness, Plaza de las Banderas (Flags square). 2017 91 Javier Rain, social protests in Chile. 2019 92 Portrait of Hugo Albarrán, Feria Pinto neighborhood. 2020 119 Resting in Padre las Casas Amphitheater. 2018 143 Alexis Vásquez Backside Tailslide to Fakie, Pucón skate park. 2020 169 Concrete ramp, Victoria skate park. 2020

92 Daniel Mardones Frontside Boardslide, Feria Pinto neighborhood. 2020 120 Spot Check II, Avenida Villa Alegre. 2017 144 Martín Candia Kickflip Frontside Boardslide, Pucón skate park. 2020 170 Felipe Aravena skating through the fog. Victoria. 2020

93 Portrait of Omar Aguayo with a HI8 camera, Temuco. 2020 121 Patricio Vásquez falling towards the pillar, Municipality. 2018 145 Diego Portales skate park, Villarrica. 2020 171 Lautaro skate park. 2020

94 Kinen Muttel waxing a ledge, Temuco. 2020 122 Patricio Vásquez skating with “Satán”. Amphitheater. 2018 146 Villarrica lakefront skate park. 2020 172 Paul Bernier Ollie, Lautaro. 2009 (Omar Aguayo)

95 Antagonistic ideas, Temuco. 2020 123 Meeting in abandoned warehouse for space clearance, Mapuche Territory. 2020 147 Francisco Kaempfer warming up, Villarrica. 2018 173 Eder Quijada, Esteban Soto and Luis Fierro, Lautaro. 2010 (Omar Aguayo)

96 Group portrait in abandoned place, Temuco. 2020 124 Pile of furniture in abandoned warehouse. 2020 148 Francisco Kaempfer Backside Crooked, Villarrica. 2018 174 Collipulli skate park. 2020

97 Portrait of Juan Morales, Angol. 2020 125 Self-managed inclined planes in abandoned warehouse. 2020 149 Yeico Sandoval, Francisco Kaempfer and Edgar Fuentes, Villarrica. 2018 175 Hugo Albarrán skating in the Collipulli skate park. 2020

98 Former Skade store, Temuco. 2020 177 Inclined plane, Collipulli skate park. 2020

99 Nicolás Ponce Kickflip, Labranza. 2020 CURARREHUE, PUCÓN, VILLARRICA 2000-2021 ANGOL, COLLIPULLI, VICTORIA, LAUTARO 2009-2020

101 Osvaldo Godoy surfing concrete, Temuco. 2017 127 El Cerdúo Hill in winter, Pucón. 2020 151 City of Angol. 2019 PITRUFQUÉN, LONCOCHE, GORBEA 2008-2020

102 Osvaldo Godoy Frontside Boardslide, Melhuish’s authorized dealer. 2018 128 Construction of a mini ramp in Puesco, Curarrehue. 2017 152 self-managed championship at Liceo Juanita Fernández, Angol. 2010 179 Pitrufquén Bridge. 2020

103 Patricio Vásquez Early Grab, Universidad de La Frontera. 2017 129 Juan Millanao and Pablo Candia drilling a pipe, Puesco. 2017 153 Self-managed championship at Liceo Juanita Fernández, Angol. 2010 180 David Espinoza Frontside Smith, Manuel Asenjo Skate Park. 2008 (Javier Toledo)

105 Skateboarding family, Universidad de La Frontera. 2017 130 Construction of a mini ramp II, Puesco. 2017 154 This is skateboarding, Liceo Juanita Fernández, Angol. 2010 181 Graffiti in memory of Manuel Asenjo (R.I.P.), Pitrufquén. 2008

131 Francisco Oviedo Frontside Smith, Puesco. 2018 155 Angol skate park inauguration. 2012 182 Group portrait in Manuel Asenjo Skate Park, Pitrufquén. 2008

PADRE LAS CASAS 2005-2020 132 Denisse Alé, Camila Hernández and Jandy Cayunao. Puesco. 2018 156 Angol skate park. 2020 183 Manuel Asenjo Skate Park, Pitrufquén. 2020

107 Sunset at Padre Las Casas. 2020 133 Portrait of Pablo Candia after falling down, Puesco. 2017 157 Gustavo Valdebenito and Juan Morales, Angol. 2020 184 Portrait of Manuel Verdugo, Southern 5 Route. 2020

108 Luis Fierro Backside Boardslide, Municipality of Padre Las Casas. 2005 (Omar Aguayo) 134 Eric Cifuentes Nollie Backside Bigspin, Puesco. 2018 158 Structures in Angol skate park. 2020 185 Cristian Campos Backside 50-50, Southern 5 Route. 2020

109 Ángelo Urra and Diego Ulloa at Temuco Main Square. 2005 (Omar Aguayo) 135 Curarrehue skate park. 2021 159 Shoes cemetery, Angol. 2020 187 Gonzalo Sarpi and Cristian Campos celebrating, Southern 5 Route. 2020

110 Self-managed championship at Amphitheater. 2016 136 Curarrehue Missionary School N°3. 2021 161 Portrait of Cristian Cid, Angol. 2020 189 Loncoche skate park. 2020

111 Omar Aguayo Frontside Flip, Dagoberto Godoy square. 2008 (Eliezer Fierro) 137 Portrait of Tomás Brevis, Curarrehue. 2021 163 Juan Morales Kickflip, Las Araucarias square, Angol. 2020 190 Ignacio Taladriz 360° Flip, Loncoche skate park. 2018

112 Group portrait in self-managed PLC skate championship. 2016 138 Skate demo on Curarrehue’s Anniversary. 2000 (Jaime Ibañez) 164 Tomás Fernández and Kinen Muttel at Piedra del Águila, Nahuelbuta National Park. 2019 191 Carlos Quidel Nosestall to Indy Grab Out, Loncoche skate park. 2018

113 Portrait of Eliezer Fierro, Padre Las Casas Amphitheater. 2020 139 Mario Felipe “Ultra” Troncoso Blunt to Fakie, Pucón. 2002 165 Tomás Fernández Frontside Boardslide, Las Araucarias square. 2020 192 Ian Hernández Frontside 50-50, Loncoche skate park. 2018

114 Eliezer Fierro and Osvaldo Godoy on Avenida Villa Alegre. 2010 (Omar Aguayo) 140 Skaters around the bowl, Pucón skate park. 2019 (Gustavo Verdugo) 166 Victoria skate park. 2020 193 Pitrufquén multipurpose court. 2018

115 Portrait of Osvaldo Godoy, Padre Las Casas. 2019 141 Esteban Jofré Rock and Roll 180° Frontside Out, Pucón skate park. 2020 167 Structures at Victoria skate park. 2020 194 Puddles of water, Pitrufquén multipurpose court. 2018

116 Kinen Muttel Kickflip, Avenida Villa Alegre. 2017 142 Pucón skate park at night. 2020 168 Rail, Victoria skate park. 2020 195 Falling down on a set of pallets, Pitrufquén multipurpose court. 2018 196 Francisco Kaempfer Melon Grab, Pitrufquén multipurpose court. 2018 Biography 197 Portrait of Ronnald Abarzúa, Pitrufquén. 2020

198 Skateboard, Gorbea multipurpose court. 2020

199 Illegal access to Pitrufquén multipurpose court. 2018

200 Jairo Ortiz Frontside Feeble, Gorbea multipurpose court. 2019 Julio Bustos Morales (Chile, 1987) is a freelance documentary photographer whose main interest is related to sports and urban 201 Floating benches, Gorbea multipurpose court. 2019 affairs. He has focused his work in Southern Chile, a territory 202 Kinen Muttel Switch Kickflip, Gorbea multipurpose court. 2019 stretched from the Araucanía Region to Magallanes (Chilean Patagonia), regularly publishing in various media and magazines 203 Gorbea skate park. 2020 nationwide. 204 Gorbea skate park II, 2018 He has obtained several recognitions of which stand out the 205 Nicolás Saldías Nollie Backside Bigspin, Gorbea skate park. 2018 photography contest “Chile país activo”, McDonald’s and 206 Alexis Quezada and friends, Gorbea skate park. 2018 Diario La Tercera (Santiago, 2019), Photo-Essay “Contaminación atmosférica urbana en el sur de Chile”, Housing Institute of the 207 Samuel Pino’s grave, Gorbea cemetery. 2020 Universidad de Chile (Santiago, 2019), photography contest 208 Mourning. Gorbea cemetery. 2020 “Temuco patrimonial 1919”, Architecture School and Arts Hall

209 Carlos Luna’s grave, Gorbea cemetery. 2020 of the Universidad Mayor (2018), 6th photography contest “Temuco, un testimonio gráfico para el futuro” (2016) and 4th 210 Carlos Luna’s coffin, Gorbea cemetery. 2020 festival of patrimonial short films of La Araucanía (Padre las

211 Portrait of Sergio Cárdenas, Gorbea. 2019 Casas, 2015), among others.

212 Cristóbal Roco Backside Wallride, Universidad Católica de Temuco. 2016 Various photography exhibitions highlighting two individual ones 213 Samuel Pino portrait of farewell at Universidad Católica de Temuco. 2016 at the Universidad Católica de Temuco (2018) and at La Rata Envenená skate & surf shop (Valdivia, 2020) and two collective ones at the Exmercado Municipal de Temuco (2016) and Azentufe: Collective photography projection from Wallmapu (2017).

He lives in the city of Temuco. I would like to thank all those who gave me their support during the process of creation of this book, especially Sylvia, who was the one who showed me and left me as part of her living legacy the art of photography.

I am grateful to those who collaborated on this work to be able to finance and carry out this project: Fondart Araucanía, Mr. Mario Fonseca for his critical view, the working group made up of Felipe Aravena Anthropology, Ignacio Vargas Design and Layout, Giovanna Morillo English Translation and Hugo Albarrán Technical Assistance, David Rohrberger, José Ladrón de Guevara, Omar Aguayo, Gustavo Verdugo, Emile Gay, Edmundo Venegas, David Espinoza, Darío Migueles, Eliezer and Luis Fierro, Javier Toledo, Cristóbal Roco, Ronald Abarzúa, Tomás Brevis and Yeico Sandoval.

Finally, I also want to thank my father for his unconditional support.