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Our Own Odysseys: Challenges in Chile

From Nights 1 October 2013

Tessa Warburton  has been to Chile twice, first as an AFS student when she was seventeen and Pinochet was still in power, and then another eight years later as a carer to a friend who uses a wheelchair.

Images courtesy of Tessa Warburton.

 

Chile's largest copper mine in Chuquiquemata, northern Chile, 1995.

Diana Neutze in Santiago, Chile 1995.

Heading into the Andes on a bus. Six-hour trip to Mendoza in Argentina, 1995.

Looking out onto a poor part of Arica, through the cathedral door. Chile's northern-most city. 1995.

Tessa Warburton and Emily, another AFS student from Adelaide, at the local market having breakfast. Singing 'Oh When The Saints'. 1988.

Tessa Warburton's class at Padre A. Hurtado school, in an equivalent 7th form year, 1988.

Tessa Warburton's first day with her host family, la familia Palma-Chavez, 1988.

Two rural girls selling Copihue - Chile's national flower - on the side of the road. 1988.

The images in this gallery are used with permission and are subject to copyright conditions.