Montecino, Christian

(Chile 1946-1973)

Shot ‘by mistake’ in 1973, Montecino lived through the beginning of Pinochet's military coup in September armed with his Nikon cameras; some of his photos are included in the book Chile from Within, a pictorial record edited in 1990. He and his brother Marcelo, also a photographer, grew up in Washington. Christian studied filmmaking and was a photographer for the IMF, a job he gave up to return to Chile in 1973.