1961 May - Bolivia. Otavi, a Quechua village in the southern highlands at an altitude of about 10,300 feet (3,170 metres). The climate is warm and largely dry so the mountains are sparsley covered. Otavi is a centre for many small communities and people from all around go to the village for the market, school, and small medical centre. I was based in Otavi for ten days with a university team observing a United Nations project for 'regional development, as it was then known. Otavi was so far from the outside world we were able to slip into a wonderfully simple daily life. I did not get a chance to return to the village until the late 1990s by which time it had grown.

Camera: MPP Microflex Twin Lens Reflex with f 3.5 77.5mm Taylor Taylor Hobson lens with light yellow filter x 1. Film Kodak Verichrome Pan at F8 - 1/125 second. Developed by hand in La Paz, using May and Baker Promicrol at normal dilution.

Negative: Bolivia 61-28-02 © Tony Morrison