For the past three weeks, The New Yorker photo department has followed the journey of the photographer Jon Lowenstein and the writer Jeff Kelly Lowenstein as they documented Chile’s 2013 Presidential elections and the fortieth anniversary of Pinochet’s military coup. This week, the brothers turned their attention to Chilean youth, spending time with members of the nonprofit TECHO and with Jaime Parada, the first openly gay citizen elected to public office in Chile. Many young people in Chile recognize the suffocating effect that the Pinochet regime had on their society, and are eager for change. As Jeff told us, “Many Chilean youth are committed to helping the country continue its arduous transition from a dictatorship to a vibrant democracy.”
View the first and second part of the “Enduring Rifts” series on Chile.
Photographs by Jon Lowenstein/NOOR/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
