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At the week marking 50 years because the bloody army coup that introduced Pinochet to energy in Chile, we meet the lady who used her digicam to defy the dictatorship. It was once unhealthy for any individual to seize lifestyles in Chile underneath Pinochet – let on my own a girl made up our minds to turn society’s underbelly of outcasts and the marginalised. Paz Errazuriz is a more than one award-winning photographer, considered one of Chile’s maximum respected photographers, praised for her images denouncing the Pinochet years. Her paintings is being proven at a Paris exhibition known as “Unfinished Tales” at Paris’s Maison de l’Amérique Latine. She speaks to Eve Jackson about how she operated underneath the radar, turning pictures into political resistance.