For the classic sense of illustrated books about cities, this book, Bogotá viva, is a challenge. Because although here are the usual landmarks, monuments, and streets that will allow the reader to identify the city familiar to them, simultaneously a torrent of momentary astonishments also emerges that, once captured, will be unrepeatable, and an urban spectrum that both rises and collapses, through the lens of Colombian photographer Cristóbal von Rothkirch. In Bogotá viva everything is possible. This surprising photographic essay is, ultimately, a deep journey into the soul of Bogotá, a capital as anachronistic as it is cosmopolitan and as surprising as it is elusive.