Carlos Jimanez Cahua is based in New York and represented by Anastasia Photo. He received his B.A. from Princeton in 2008. Of this series, Lima, he says, ‘I photographed the landscape of Lima with varying degrees of mans’ development present. Lima is a desert, but despite this, it has one of the largest populations of any city, and it’s growing too rapidly, so much so that people are forced to make their home anywhere they can, yielding pueblos jovenes, or young towns, in areas that were previously completely undeveloped. Yet because it’s a desert, there where they develop, there is no removal of trees or brush, they make their home upon the raw earth itself. For the people of Lima, this makes their relationship to the land both more intimate and humbling than usual, particularly when compared to their first-world contemporaries’. Read more about this series here.
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