Gonzalo Leiva Quijada is professor of the history of civilization at EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) in Paris and lectures in philosophy and aesthetics at the Instituto de Estética, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago. He has published many works on photography and the art of Latin America, including Pinturas con historia (2008), Multitudes en sombras: AFI (2008), Horizontes y abismos, Obra visual de Virginia Huneeus (2011), Sergio Larraín, Biografía, estética, fotografía (2012).