Rodrigo Llano

Biography

Rodrigo Llano is a Chilean cinematographer and visual artist. He has worked on Chilean and international film projects, including the Kurt Vonnegut documentary Man Without a Country, and his photos have been published with Reuters and in the Fall 2010 issue of VQR. He is currently at work on a feature film about immigration.

See Work

REPORTING / Summer 2011

All Rivers Lead to the Sea

By Annie Murphy ,  Photography by Rodrigo Llano

As a child, Oridia Paredes dreamed of walls. For the daughter of itinerant fishermen in Chilean Patagonia, daily life was built not around a house or a neighborhood, but the sea—and for Paredes, walls became a symbol of the life that her...

REPORTING / Fall 2010

Father Copper

By Annie Murphy ,  Photography by Rodrigo Llano

When Carmen Ahumada first looked on the copper mining city of Calama, she wanted to die. It was 1958, long after Germany’s World War I-era invention of artificial saltpeter—the main ingredient in bombs—brought Chile’s glory days as a world...