Born in 1959 in Daun in the Eifel region, Frank Schultze studied photojournalism in Dortmund with Adolf Clemens. Since completing his studies in 1992, he has worked for all the important German and International magazines and newspapers, including GEO, Stern, Spiegel, Times, Focus, Brigitte, Natur, Das Magazin, Weltwoche, and Die Zeit. He was awarded first prize for socially conscious photography by the Association of Charitable Organizations in 1996 and has participated in many group and solo exhibitions. Of this work, Naval Boliviana, Schultze writes, “In 1879 Bolivia lost the Saltpeter War against Chile and thus its entrance to the sea. Stubbornly the poor country maintains a war navy’.
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It’s interesting to note in the last picture the boat’s mention to Venezuela, not Bolivia. Is this photo part of the same reportage? Is Venezuela helping Bolivians with naval equipment?