La Chamba — Work, Travel & the Tourist’s Gaze

La chamba is what work is called across much of Latin America: the job, the hustle, the thing that fills the day and quietly organises everything around it — streets, houses, landscapes, and the very places tourism turns into scenery. Dorian André spent seven months between Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua photographing exactly that. A graphic designer who uses photography as a research tool, he shot, edited and laid out this first book alone, and he photographs from where he actually stands, as a traveller passing through, making that position part of the subject rather than hiding it. He calls La Chamba a first chapter: the beginning of a longer look at work as a way of life.

André will be at the shop all evening to sign copies, alongside a selection of prints from the book shown on the ground floor — one large poster and four framed prints. La Chamba is self-published in an edition of 60 copies, each numbered and signed: 210 × 260 mm, 148 pages, PUR binding, four-colour throughout, text in French and Spanish, €20.

📚 La Chamba — Dorian André
📅 Friday 18 September 2026 | 6pm – 9pm
📍 Le Grand Jeu, 15 passage de Ménilmontant, 75011 Paris