San Pedro de Atacama: Shape Over Color

A black-and-white photographic journey through one of the world's most vibrantly colored landscapes.

San Pedro de Atacama is known for its striking colors: burning reds, electric blues, and radiant yellows. But in this series, I chose to strip the landscape of its color to focus entirely on form. Texture, shape, shadow, and light take center stage, inviting the viewer to experience the desert through a sculptural, almost otherworldly lens.

These photographs highlight the dramatic and peaceful interplay between earth and sky, stillness and erosion, permanence and change. In doing so, they also raise quiet questions about fragility. The Atacama Desert is one of the driest places on Earth, yet not immune to the disruptions of a changing climate. Melting glaciers in the Andes, shifting rain patterns, and increasing tourism all leave subtle traces on this seemingly timeless terrain. To photograph this place now is to bear witness to a moment of extraordinary stillness that may not last.