Paz Errázuriz is a Chilean photographer. Errazuriz documented marginalized communities such as sex workers, psychiatric patients and circus performers during the military dictatorship of Chile. Errázuriz’s has said about her work: “They are topics that society doesn’t look at, and my intention is to encourage people to dare to look”. She was a teacher at a primary school when Augusto Pinochet overtook Chile’s Presidential Palace in 1973, inspiring her to begin her photography career. Errazuriz is the co-founder of the Association of Independent Photographers (AFI) in 1981 to make it easier for artists in Chile to find legal support and organize group art shows.