19 November 2019|The Canary|Antonio Kadima
Chilean photographer Antonio Kadima illustrates state repression and civil uprising in neoliberal Chile.
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This article first appeared in The Canary on 15 November 2019
Kadima founded Tallersol in 1977 with a group of collaborators. One important aspect of their work was their graphic design workshop and they produced a huge quantity of posters and other material during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, working with a wide range of groups from across the opposition on campaigns and events.
In the 1980s Tallersol was responsible for 50 – 60% of all the opposition posters produced in Santiago.
Chilean activist and photographer Antonio Kadima has been documenting the tense events in Chile over the past month
One month ago, Chile’s Transport Ministry announced a hike in Santiago’s underground metro prices. In response, school students began protesting in metro stations and organising fare-dodging acts of resistance. Rather than negotiating with the students, though, Chilean president Sebastián Piñera initially met the protests with condescension and police repression.
The students soon found support in wider Chilean society; and what began as a localised dispute ended up turning into a national uprising. The metro price hike, it seems, was the grain of rice that tipped the scale after three decades of neoliberalism in Chile. And now, the country is now gripped by a national strike.
The following photos capture the events of recent weeks.
Images of repression
Mass protests
Never forget the past. And never stop fighting for a brighter future.
“Neoliberalism was born in Chile,” say the protesters.
Perhaps it will die there, too.