Daily Life, 2nd prize
Stephen Ferry
Matrix for Geo
Matrix for Geo
01 January, 1992
Accidents in the mines are frequent. Mourners at a wake for the victim (25) of an accident in the mines. Cerro Rico, 'the rich mountain', in the Bolivian highlands, is like a rabbit warren. In Spanish colonial times this was a thriving city. At the time half of all silver ever mined originated from here, but the mountain is also the grave of millions of Quechua Indians. Their descendants still go down the mine shafts. They now look for tin, because most of the silver is long gone.
Stephen Ferry
Stephen Ferry was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA in 1960. His father, David Ferry, is a poet and translator, and his mother, Anne Ferry, was a scholar of English literatur...
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