Almost everything in Valparaiso is in this photo, except for one essential thing: color. Valparaiso is a very colorful city, and I was interested in photographing it in black and white. I had to go beyond the first level, which is obvious when you arrive here, and discover what is behind the colors. By bringing out the lines and structures of the city, maybe I can find out what’s left of Valparaiso when his color is removed? In this image, what remains is the light of an ever-present sun, the shadows of the electric wires with which Valparaiso is entwined, the recycled planters, and a graff itself, already in black and white, in stark contrast to the thousands of others that cover the walls of the city. In fact, Valparaiso is a capital of street art, and in this open-air museum you can feel a ubiquitous artistic effervescence. In a way, this image is a testimony of what’s going on in Valparaiso: artists inspiring artists, works responding to each other, interweaving and placing themselves in abyme. Alexandra Wuzyk, an artist from South Africa, painted this graff a few years ago, and I’d like to thank her for giving me the baton to photograph it.