A photo essay spanning some 25 years of occasional shooting in the world's driest desert, Atacama, in the Chilean north.
Surprisingly, water is quite abundant in select places, and so is wild life.
Humans have also been living here for many centuries and done quite well.
The local Lican Antai people have exclusive water rights and distribute it between family groups or so-called Ayllú, often using channel systems that date back to pre-colonial times.
However, today, big mining and tourism suck up underground water like the proverbial sponge and one day soon the show may end, for both the locals and wild life.
The mining companies, on the other hand, will still be here, even in the absence of virtually free water.
They will pump it up from 50-million dollar desalinization plants on the coast, money they made by ripping off the desert - and the local people - in the first place.