I enjoy making people photos just as much as I do making landscapes. It’s a different thing, and requires a different approach.

Shot with a Contax 645 film camera and 45mm lens, this was made inside the small hut this gaucho worked from. Every gaucho I met had a similar stove and all of them were crazy about mate (south American tea). They drink it from a gourd that you can see in his hand.

The shot isn’t posed. My friend Sabine and our driver spent easily two to three hours with each of the guides just chatting and shooting the breeze. It was a good way of me being able to make photos as at some point, they would just ignore me and get on with what they were doing.

I do love to make people photos and I really haven’t done anything in a very, very long time. Taking a break away from landscape work can be very beneficial in terms of recharging one’s own batteries.

It was just a lot of fun.