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Ricardo Carrasco
Ricardo Carrasco Stuparich (born 1965) is a Chilean photographer, author and photography teacher, best known for nature and travel photography of South America. Early life Born in Santiago, Chile in 1965 from a family of artists and musicians, Ricardo Aleide Carrasco Stuparich started in nature photography at an early age at his family farm in Santa Cruz de Cuca near the town of Quinchamali. Using a Soviet-Russian 35 mm camera and handmade extension tubes he then experimented in macro photography. This led to his first published article by a major publication, Geomundo, about the praying mantis, in his early teens. In 1983 he studied photography and video production at the Arcis Institute in Santiago. Career Over the years, Carrasco traveled extensively through Chile, compiling a stock photo collection. His interest in mountain climbing and kayaking and constant travels led to numerous articles and a permanent engagement with the Sunday magazine of Chile's El Mercurio newspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of , with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule, but failing to conquer the independent Mapuche who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. In 1818, after declaring in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |