The life and work of Sergio Larraín, perhaps the most important Chilean photographer, has an aura of genius and mystery. In the fifties and sixties, he produced a rare and brilliant body of work that remained almost unknown in Chile until his death. This invisibility was partly due to the fact that his work was mostly published in international media, but above all because he himself prevented its dissemination. A contradictory figure, he withdrew from public life in the late sixties to dedicate himself to meditation, yoga, and writing, yet he maintained extensive correspondence and remained, with the singularity that characterized him, connected to photography. This book, written at the intersection of family closeness and real distance, explores the chiaroscuros of his biography. For its author – Larraín's niece, but with whom she had little contact – this uncle was an enigma about whom she had heard since her childhood, and it is in the echo of those voices that she weaves the plot of an intense life. Narrated from the proximity of those stories heard at tables, in hushed conversations, Catalina Mena achieves an intimate portrait of a figure that has often been attempted to be mythified. Author: Catalina Mena Larraín