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Photography is a relationship
documents a time when the
photographer
the subject and the environment are dancing and
Illuminated relationship between the three
there is always a fourth actor absent the
viewer is a room that goes up to the
infinite
photography is fascinating because I
I want to make it clear today is that the
photography is a relationship
It sounds very simple but it has
profound consequences and was 6
thanks to a group of children and young people
of cazucá highs may reach
recognize a coastal accent or voice
true or ninth time the Atlantic coast
but the Atlantic coast demichelis and I
I arrived in Colombia for the first time in
year 2001 with only 22 years old and just
recorded gain of the states
United
back then I had the head
image full of theory and despite
that I loved the theory overflowed
the desire to do something wanted to give
space to those who usually appear in front
to a 20 as the communities passed for
that they could portray their lives
and tell your own stories
my idea was to highlight the addition of those
people so that they could exercise
a kind of control in their lives already
that does not even want where they build
their houses is firm to take a picture
with the arrival of time is a great resource
to build self-esteem consciousness and
sense of belonging but that does not happen
it only happens by only delivering one
camera to someone is a process
I want to go back to the year 2001 when
I founded project shooting changes for
peace
at that time the crisis of
Forced displacement in Colombia
it was at its sharpest
the newspapers are full of
images of entire communities
having hit in shock children
hungry to the point of crying and one
looking at those photographs it happened
realize that this population is atheist
dripping a situation supremely
difficult but I could not get to know them
like human beings
that motivated me to create a project that
would show the feelings and dreams of
that population
I am planning my project I
He took a coastal bird like me
nausea manages a project that is
called social corporation faith and hope
in the heights of cazucá about two hours
by bus
this center of bogotá was a project
it’s a project for children who do not have
to pay the tuition of the
informal education to avoid these
past passed to neus in the years
90 and today he came to a neighborhood that
ironically it’s called progress
I went to meet them to ride a bus in the
Bogota center
and I got off in soacha
after going around in a neighborhood
unknown looking for an address
confused that he had not given me by mail
electronic or that a door and there I
saluted one out
we went up the taming we raised the quarry and
we cross this little story about a
contaminated lagoon
I remember two things about that
first time the smell a day to death
as if something or someone were
rotting there and so was the lagoon
is contaminated even with the dead
from the area
The second thing I remember was a
white foam that flew over each
one was the cherries those clouds dating from
foam
even though it irrigated pollution
all the sector
I told him I ‘m given to work with
30 boys and girls from your school
informal teach of photographs and
stop this opportunity to photograph
their own lives of taste and a month
then we are sitting on the grass at
side of the lagoon
talking about photography like that began
shooting cameras for peace
the project became a foundation
Colombian who had a life of 17 years
He worked with more than 400 young people and
inspired other projects similar to the
zone and in other parts of Colombia and in
those seven years reach a lot of people from
outside of the neighborhood to feed and nourish
the visions of the boys and this
exchange of perspectives from
inside and from outside the neighborhood gave
to the project
a great wealth always reminds me of
the time we have two young people
organized the Andes one of the
more spaces avoid this country
there every young man from cazucá entered
dark room and he worked with a
university of the Andes and there to
courtroom steals the darkroom
those two economic poles of the
Colombian society shared the
magic of seeing an image leave a
paper was a very nice meeting of two
populations that coexist in the same
city but very few times already logan
then came other exchanges of
perspectives like when they tell me
we sit with each boy to talk
about his photographs and there savior
the very nice things came out and other
very blurry
jasmine with ten years took a
photograph of his younger brother playing
play dead child I never
could have made me dead like that
convincingly Jasmine confirmed months
weight when he said in the pines have killed
to marta people have arrived girls by
such weapons killed last year
a man for tortured cut to the
half they left it they have been found
girls dead there
sometimes I girls and leave them for
there voted and found
that’s why I took this picture and at the same time
time that young people documented
coexistence that continues to plague the sector
documentary film
very nice things like Luis Marin who
with nine years old he takes a photograph of
his parents kissing tells us here my
papers are expanding because it is that
my daddy when he had a leg has been spent
and he did not obey my mother and yet
andy in the first exhibition that
we organized the children turned
media stars
they were asked about their works as
would make any artist years
later I realized the importance
that he had those moments in his his
lives in your self-esteem is that moment in
that they had to look for a language to
explain your intentions
photographic we had to name
a project man that he liked the most
the young will be shooting cameras
for peace
at first I thought he liked me
course but the more I thought about it the more
he liked because peace happens in the
ability to understand the position of
another appreciate their way of looking at the world
and if there was something real in the double
meaning of the word shoot that
some shots of the rifles can
sow fear and terror but that others
camera shots can do
all positions can create meaning in a
world that seems to have lost the
photography gave them a new relationship
with its environment was not by day
comes the exercise that he liked the most
the young ones was the pinhole camera
return a box or a can and
transform it into a camera obscura
small was consistent with its surroundings
the informal economy and in the course
of time
we look for exhibitions too
they would be more and more coherent with
the environment
For example, we put 100 photographs of
two meters by one meter of the facades
of the homes of young people and their
friends
we had our dark room up
in the barium our workshop also the
project generated a dialogue between
looks of the young participants
the workshop workers who played a very
important
the media the
university among others and so the
dialogue and looks managed to create a
new image of cazucá and another image of
the crisis of displacement in Colombia
I always remember when playing
leave of you was them
I sat down to the one of viviana díaz m
she asked me why I had to go
he told me that he had to return with my
family has to give a hug to me to
my brother who missed a lot and she
he looks at me and he responds to me so there’s rubbing
we are in the same
two years ago my brothers is good
for all lime and like it or not
He missed me a lot when I got two
prisoner neighborhoods
I never thought I was going to build
similar proximity pozones coming from
two shores of the world so different
but the project created some relationships
they are so strong and so unexpected that
even though I’m a professor in the
U.S
I keep coming until here I continue
investigating two media aspects of
Colombian conflict daughter search
peace
I prefer not to say what impact it had
the project young people and not leave them to
they the word news the amount of
it’s one last reflection of me and the
world is richer and more valuable when
is full of representations that do not
and are only different but
built in common
Here I leave you with some testimonies
of young people who are no longer so
young game little name liliana
flowers
I am 23 years old prisoner and flowers
I go 35 years and Roque Lina Florez street
to 2001
do not tell me what the exhibitions in
the events that come from asia filled
a lot because it was not very small in that
era but it made me think that there was
one more level the box had to
reach is like children or like
people as young people we do not know what
we want to do on the road and shooting
baskets for the raisin I opened myself
the eyes of what I wanted to do in
life I’m an artist or dance and it’s something
that fascinates me proud is
exposing what I took what it rains
in English and is shooting cameras to
the age of nine years monitor a
long process and shooting camera
it meant like let’s say a second
16 school in a second home for me
it was like a second policeman was when
We made the passes and they were a little
most advanced monitors are
doing support for the kids that
new entrants and it was also the workshop
so much I would like to return
to the project because on my part I have
much to give to my children from
my community and how they were there there
another world and another thing that can
help you to get ahead if it is
when you play for it and it has
gone wrong, latina says , I can really
get ahead no matter the neighborhood I
I see I care about the place where
you have to get ahead for me because of me
family for being an example to other children
others or in
ace
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