Alex Kornhuber: Documentary Photography in Perù

Documentary photographer Alex Kornhuber has spent more than twenty years photographing Peru, its people, land, labour and migration, and the question of who we really are. In this interview, Peruvian-German documentary photographer Alex Kornhuber talks about a life spent photographing Peru. Born to a German father and a Peruvian mother, Alex has always felt he belongs everywhere and nowhere, a feeling that lets him enter realities different from his own. Over two decades he moved past the tourist mask of Peru toward its hidden, more difficult places: mining towns like La Rinconada at 5,400 meters, the extraction economy that shapes entire families, and the land that makes its people resilient and creative. He speaks candidly about the ethics of consent, stealing a shot and negotiating with the people in it, the emotions that get in the way of editing, and what he keeps from masters like Koudelka, Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson.