MAGICAL PATAGONIA : Help me travel and make my Photobook!

Pablo Mattenent Start Date: Jul 17, 2023 - End Date: Nov 16, 2023
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
  • Chile
  • Argentina
  • Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
  • Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
  • Chiloé, Chile
  • Valdivia, Chile

My Travel Story

by: Pablo Mattenent Start Date: Jul 17, 2023 - End Date: Nov 16, 2023
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development

On 2019 I was lucky to go to South America for the first time. I had this idea of making a huge photo trip to Patagonia, to make a photo travel book of this magnificent region where the Andes ends (and it kinda feels like the world ends there too. Where the climate can be extreme, but the landscape and the connection with nature are things you must experience).

Unfortunately that 2019 trip ended before time. On October there was this huge social outbreak with constant demonstrations happening all over Chile.  As a photographer I was lucky to be there in it's capital, Santiago, to document that historical moment (2nd photo). But with these events + COVID I had to get back home.

 

A lot changed. Honestly. I had to spend all my savings to hospitalise my mom last year.

One friend recommended me this platform. And tbh I'm ashamed of doing this. I wanna thank you in advance if you reached this point and want to fund me.

But I was thinking that I can give every donor (any amount) a virtual copy of my work down there in Patagonia once I finish it.  If someone makes a huge donation we can even talk about sending you a hardcover copy of the book.

 

PS. I left a link with some of my photos during that 2019 trip.

  • Chile
  • Argentina
  • Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
  • Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
  • Chiloé, Chile
  • Valdivia, Chile