Sex workers

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In Chile, selling and buying sex is legal. The women I photographed were all from Colombia or Ecuador. Many immigrants are sex workers, as the minimum wage is too low for them to support their families.

In Chile, selling and buying sex is legal. The women I photographed were all from Colombia or Ecuador. Many immigrants are sex workers, as the minimum wage is too low for them to support their families.

This is a series of portraits of sex workers I encountered on the streets of Santiago in 2014.