A visual essay by Pablo Garcilita and Inés Magaña
High Altitude
Bolivia
A vision of Bolivia by Pablo Garcilita and Inés Magaña
There it was again, the noise in my head getting all out of focus. The type of noise that you hear in the movies when someone is paralysed, suffocated, the one that you hear at the hospital when a heart stops beating. I knew what I needed: high altitude. I buy a flight to the highest capital city in the world: La Paz, Bolivia, at an elevation of 3,650m above sea level. The city is located in a bowl-like depression surrounded by the high mountains of the Altiplano. Overlooking the city is the towering, triple-peaked Illimani. Mountains are the true stairway to heaven and the ones that discover this cannot resist the temptation to get back on track, back to the wild, back to the calm of a quiet night by the fire.
Photography and words by Pablo Garcilita & Inés Magaña
Edited by Bis Turnor
Traveller/s
Pablo Garcilita
Architect & Photographer
Pablo Garcilita is an architect turned photographer. His biggest inspiration comes from the passion and constancy one must give in any sport to achieve perfection. To take the body to the limit, just as he did for 14 years in athletics. Pablo founded a film company, Mut, in Guadalajara his native city to tell the stories behind any athlete. His first experience with nature was conquering the summit of Iztaccíhuatl, one of the highest mountains in Mexico. Since then he seeks to find himself and others in nature, traveling, connecting with strangers through his lens to tell their story.
@pablo.garcilitaInés Magaña
Journalist & photographer
Inés Magaña writes poems since she was 6 years old, the purest way she relates to her surroundings is by transforming it into words. Graduated in Journalism with a speciality in Documentary Photography, she uses images and letters in constant union to describe what is happening before her eyes, peacefully demanding change or simply greater awareness of the environment. Although she loves everything about Mexico, she hopes to never take root anywhere and remain objective.
