after taking a picture with this bitch I
Libyan said great friend big brother
while he had her in his hand 1980
the time that I started my beginnings
documentary and photographic
he always accompanied me to listen
salsa to go out on weekends to see
once walking down the avenue
guayabal in the era of drug trafficking
at the time of those Bellus cars
beautiful model hilux passed a car
honda and this rainy Saturday what
splashed relief stopped and his
insults and he started yelling
rudeness
the driver the brake was returned and
supposedly we have climbed
run several kilos sounds it turned to
look back
the driver hears relief is on the floor
he came to the site I pick him up he looks at me he ‘s the
first approach that I have the
death is the only image that I have
of relief by the known several
cemeteries where the Itagui
They buried the room that and the cemetery
universal where I do not forget that
image that I first saw an image
full of bones of skulls that
they were in a wheelbarrow that after
it was red or in a mass grave and if
legacies
and disappeared
many of these young people who were not
claimed by the company were
incinerated in 1985 the first cree furnace
crematorium that exists in the cemetery
universal violent young people who from
soon not to serve society and have
killed in the different streets
Of course it’s your turn to cover what the monkey was
henry agudelo that furry they had to
500 and first came from any
side
the daring and they used a lot in that
time but death comes to my house
knocks on the door to his brother just
kill four shots in the head
chemical engineer should
working in the largest mining companies
who has colombia
but the love of a woman and the
drug trafficking
he did come back here to cook coca
in one of the laboratories and find
death
the brother disappeared for the second time
the universal cemetery the cemetery
San Lorenso call my father and tell him
You have to take the bodies from here
his mother’s
that is my grandmother of his son
that is my brother william cemetery to
disappear is going to become a
recreational park in two black bags
We picked up the bone and loaded it on my
automobile and we proceeded to do the
cremation to my sister the bed of gio
we patrol throughout the city
it was the time of terror the time the
drug trafficking the era of car bombs
in the hotels the time the cars
bomb in the bullring in different
streets of the city
the time when they paid 1 or 2 million
of pesos for police needs
I could have been one of these
young people who kill the different
streets
they made the decision to carry a
weapon in hand I also the other was
through a camera
make the documentary record of these
young people where they go because we
they kill because they get lost because
after living so long in a
morgue are sometimes delivered at
Universities to be studied
there I start to generate my first source
that lets me go to in the different
laboratories and meet with these
young people who embellish the death that
they want to take away that face with which
they come to death and want
give them to your family to see
in a different way positive
each of these parts of these
bodies they keep them in
different tools within the
same institution
many of these young people give them shelter
they give their name they put a nickname to
others through a numbering of
a necropsy and after a ritual
what we did in legal medicine
we proceeded to make a dignified burial to
take him to a cemetery to bury them
worthy because he had already fulfilled his
already had given us a whole
knowledge
I thought that I had given everything that
has delivered all death
I think he did not make me suffer I thought
I’m going to face it again the
Colombian army calls me 5
June 2002 and he tells me he was given
down to 12 guerrillas to rap
we need that actually the
cover I say goodbye to my wife
is taking care of my mother in a chair
wheel
because she is sick with Parkinson’s disease
I ‘m going to the airport made the
photographic record came to
newspaper and I will proceed at the time of
lunch before seeing the material
revealed nothing will ever forget me
Friday beans food already when I go to
put the first spoonful I received a
call from my father that your mother tells me
has died
what pain so much pain that after
of 15 years I come as our
picture an image that camera me
had accompanied to make this record
was registered in dispute making up the
where I openly have to ask
apologies because none of the family
I had seen it because the
negative inside a book in the
library that I had in the house pain
because because I was the time 6 abc it was so
cold as a tombstone with a blade
that was not my mother of death was the
takes until today the streets are filled with
killed in different parts of the
city
in itagüí in castilla in bello en
nativity scene altavista the morgue returns with
his missing there trying to
recognize it through a fingerprint
digital of the dental letter today some
garment that they kept for some
time to see if a family member is
approached to be recognized
subsequently being there in the
universal cemetery that remains in the
back of legal medicine
look to the bottom and I find a
gravedigger is finishing 10 graves
after 30 years I remember again
that image but it was not that
cart full of bones but it was a
truck full of corpses totally
naked with
a white plastic and thrown one by
one in that common grave to do
disappeared
today the prosecution in that
cemetery is looking for more than six
a thousand missing people who believe that
They are there
I am a witness of it together with my bed
through drawings through
recompose and life and death of
different exhumations that they make
try to put together the puzzle of her or
through the clothes or in the same
laboratory where they study each of
these parts or of a peasant or is
of a guerrilla or a soldier
so that later alarm and
recognize someone that garment has
delivered to the prosecution because the
prosecutor’s office in a magazine called
traces where each one of these leaves
garments with a numbering and you
delivery to each of these relatives
so that they take it to their children to their
city or its native region and be
buried publicly dignified I think
that many of you here have children
how many of you have children 1234567
seven young people and children miss day
ding per day in colombia seven families
destroyed seven damaged homes
it’s as if an average people
disappear every five years in the
country
young people remain armed in the
different columns of the city to them
are the ones to ask for permission
why not the police
it’s up to them to give us the permits
to move from one neighborhood to another
when a lot of texts disappear,
to organizations like mothers of the
candelaria who protest for a long time
time to find out where your
disappeared or as the dump in the
commune 13 that today the day of
yesterday they were still making a list
to number who loved ones
that are there missing because they are
believe that there is a common grave of
more than 300 people who threw there
but the budget is not enough to
continue with that search
they are still waiting to know where
is that truth where is your being
Dear
where is that missing person after
of many years and of not working more in
a communication media
Last year, a laboratory returned
for a call that the teacher makes
german aunt sister aunt is a doctor
forensics who tells me henry I just got
deliver a new body to him
total joy happiness because because
the body of this is not delivered all
day lasts days months years
delivery process of a body this
that may be the last body that
deliver in that laboratory because
starting this year they have to study
with a robot young people the day
they study each of these parts of the
bodies
I arrive at the laboratory and I do not see the
all
I already see the decomposition of each one
of these corpses and I’m going to something very
particular
I’m going to look at those pieces of skin that
they cut and pick pieces of skin that
can be from brands of ink brands of
gunpowder that’s going to be saved
for many years and that’s what
identify that missing york
He made a series of images
compiled
no means of communication
Colombian wanted to publish this story
the band this year to the sony award
london and has been chosen winner by
the subject so strong in which what
represent
the title was indelible marks
being there in that gallery the
international journalists I
they asked that is true
that’s not pigskin and I told them
each rosso bull of his represents a
to be disappeared even without a name
many of them cry while they
I counted because they said the same
happened in his country but that
absolutely nobody dared to
denouncing those pieces of skin served
because before traveling to london
the black woman in black or the transvestite who
I was in the laboratory still with
the painted nails or deliver it because
they recognized him his family arrived
since the collision and the prosecution had them
to deliver immediately to
take him to his land and bury him
but not everything is there in my activity
sports that always performed almost
every day to the hill of three
crosses cargo always my iphone
I’m going to do my sport and I
I find with this body a body that
he received 60 stabs
that is not the case the case is that
after five days medicine arrived
legal to ask about him and
absolutely nobody
the answer a nn more have lost more
a disappeared in this city
that’s why I ‘m going back to the lab
to dignify death to give
understand people who through
the photograph
we will always remember everything
what the mind sometimes forgets me
I wonder if there is life
of death I have always believed
yes because these beings when
they were alive were already dead
the same society discriminated against them and
us together with the students
we are giving a new opportunity to
that are identified
I am doing it through the
documentary part and the photographic part
I think we should all do it from
a narrative way of a story to
through our family trees
because it is that peace negotiation does not
they are simply made with the living
the negotiation of pasaia do also
with two missing and with dead
you have to give them utility must
recognize them
to this we must let them know that they are
there
photography remembers everything that
the mind forgets is why I
I continue my path and continued my
steps giving life to death to
through my image document many
Thank you
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