CHACO is an independent publishing house focusing on producing content that seeks to create tension in our reading of reality.

Its history comprises two stages: the first one in 2015, in Madrid, where it emerges as a continuation of Riot Books, and the second one after in Argentina, where it relocates in 2019. After taking an essential break in order to rethink the contents from a new territory and its modes of production, CHACO (now) returns in 2026 with proposals that have been conceived considering the present as a creative potential.

CHACO’s field of interest centers on Latin American authors while maintaining a critical, autonomous and situated perspective, and (also) being attentive to their contexts and production conditions It emphasizes the potential of the book as a means of free expression and as an aesthetic-political entity set into motion.

CHACO conceives editorial practice as an artistic and experimental process, created in dialogue with the authors.

CHACO’s editorial work has been recognized with the Shannon Michael Cane Award (Printed Matter, New York, 2019) and the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award (2015), among others. Its publications have been included in exhibitions and collections at Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Daegu Photo Biennale, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MoMA (New York), and Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti (Buenos Aires), among others.

CHACO is Verónica Fieiras, alongside  a network of collaborators and friends who make its continuity possible.