1961 April - Bolivia. La Paz. An Art Deco building in the centre of the city on Avenida Camacho. The building was designed by a Yugoslav architect Ivica Krusul and includes the Hotel La Paz. The work dates from the late 1930s into the 1940s. My diary notes that my first night in Bolivia was spent in the Hotel La Paz - the exact price is not stated but the Boliviano, the currency of that time was 33,000 to one Pound Sterling. One of the parked cars/ automobiles has a diplomatic plate for the Yugoslavian embassy.

Camera Leica lll F with a collapsible Leitz f 5 cm 1:3.5 lens. Film Kodak Plus X Pan at F 5.6 - 1/200 second with orange filter x 4. The camera was on loan and my film was cut from bulk rolls and loaded in a re-loadable leica cassette. It was a convenient low cost way of carrying film but not ideal. The film had to be loaded in the dark and static electricity always attracted dust which shows on the negative. Developed by hand in La Paz using May and Baker Promicrol at normal dilution..

Negative: Bolivia 61-76-27 © Tony Morrison