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In 1999, the website and the online image library of LATINPHOTO.org went online. Please click here to the classic pages of LATINPHOTO.org.

Why the young woman in the logo?

LATINPHOTO.org uses an image of a young woman in its logo. She was photographed in 1997 during a protest by indigenous people in Buenos Aires. The government at that time sold land to foreign industrialists and dispossessed the inhabitants living there. In protest, the indigenous traveled to the capital. Today, only a minority of Argentinians are still descendants of the 30 ethnic groups of indigenous people who lived there before the arrival of the Spaniards. At the protest, a photographer noticed this young mother because she is wearing a traditional dress mixed with modern clothes. In one of the other pictures she is seen talking to a woman about the same age from Buenos Aires. This encounter symbolizes the different ethnic groups in a country where the indigenous people have lost almost everything.

LATINPHOTO.org was created because of what this young woman symbolizes.

Patrick Lüthy, founder of the agency LATINPHOTO.org
Switzerland 2013http://www.latinphoto.org/Latin_2002/index.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0