Perched 2,200 meters above sea level in the Andes, Sewell was built beside El Teniente, the world’s largest underground copper mine. Founded in 1905 as a workers’ settlement, the town reached its height between the 1940s and 1960s, home to more than 15,000 people living among stairways, narrow paths, and buildings clinging to the slope.

Today, preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sewell stands as a quiet witness to Chile’s mining and urban history. This photography series enters its suspended emptiness, where colorful structures, rusted textures, and human traces remain held in time.