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In 1970, Fernell Franco started the series Prostitutas (Prostitutes) while he worked as a commercial photographer. In his first personal project, the artist frequented the brothels in the Buenaventura port, Cali, capturing spontaneous moments and, more regularly, depicting women in posed photographs which refer to art history: the nude and the portrait. The meticulous prints of photographic copies went on show in 1972 in the Ciudad Solar venue in Cali, under the title Click las putas (Click the Whores). In 1983, Franco published the photobook Fotografías (Photographs) with a design by Juanita Uribe de Arango, texts by Darío Ruiz Gómez and Santiago Mutis and a selection of his pictures belonging to the series Prostitutas e Interiores (Prostitutes and Interiors), two of his salient projects, both developed in the 1970s. The publication gathers records of the interiors of old mansions in central Cali, the destruction of which was forcibly promoted. In the ghostly images of rooms, corridors, stairs, prostitutes, murky mirrors and wallpaper, we witness economic and social decline and violence meted out on cities and their inhabitants.