The Azentun Photography Workshop: A Proposal for Self-Representing the Urban Mapuche Teenagers in Santiago de Chile

Abstract

This article reflects on the Azentun Photography Workshop's visual and ethnographic practices. The workshop took place in the city of Santiago de Chile, to explore the identity construction of young Mapuche people through historical and contemporary photograph readings. The teenagers created new visual representations to offer multiple meanings relating to their identity. The resultant visual documents serve as self-representations that bring out and subvert the treacherous matter of Mapuche identity. A new reading on the prevailing hegemonic perspective on the Mapuche people is proposed.