This catalog was printed for the exhibition of his work at the Isaac Fernandez Blanco Museum of Hispano-American Art. Martín Chambi was the first photographer of indigenous origin who portrayed his own people, revealing the magic universe and daily life of the Andean people with a high technical quality, masterly handling of light, and an original eye. At the same time, he was a photojournalist, documenter of native culture, a portrait photographer of Cuzco high society, and the master of a whole generation of photographers.

His photographic archive, preserved in Cuzco, contains over 30,000 negatives on glass plates and other formats.