I see photos whenever I get up
every morning half of the networks
social and I know what happens in the
world
since I discovered that with a camera
I can make a social report
I can know realities that are hard and
cruel and violent
I decided that I wanted to show it to the world
that’s why I decided to be a photojournalist and
I started 26 years ago in a magazine that
back then it was a very
important for the country changed 16
I had the privilege of working with the
best journalists of the moment was
practitioner are the university and I said
I want to learn and that’s where I started
Suddenly the director calls me and tells me
urgently needed a photographer there was no
none was alone and is archived
photos I tell you is not that there is nobody
they are all on the outside I do not know but
you have to go and take pictures of the
painter jose antonio roda
I said jose red antonio
my legs were shaking like now
I took the camera and I went to the
teacher attended me super well
he was super generous with me taking the
Photos
I came back running the magazine we revealed
the roll was slide film
very difficult to take
when I see the development that seemed
a black white chessboard and
white the black total disaster
A photo was saved and that photo was the one
he went in the article but with that and
there I said I am a disaster not only for
it is but the photographer told me
quiet follow that happens that’s little to
little and with the desire to learn
I went to the best newspaper in the country
time I stood up front said I’m going to
achieve between I spoke with the editor the
moment that the juanita saints a woman
high as well as I very imposing and you
I said Juanita I want to learn this is a
school with this small portfolio
but I know that I can looked at me
fixedly and he tells me he knows he’s
contracted last two years two years
where I learned to do sports
social fashion politics that hated them
but I also knew and between a world
very macho one was a sea of
insecurities
however the fight but suddenly a
day after almost two years another
editor calls me to his office and tells me
you know that you serve us is for that
devote yourself to something else but looks me
I said that as a state
pass me the resignation and pass it to the other
day was amazing the feeling of
impotence
depression sadness I left with my box
as they leave all when they leave
unemployed with my little box when I cross
the newspaper door
I cried and cried without stopping the next day
according to a colleague with a suitcase of photos
a camera a few rolls and told me
shout ahead you are a photographer and what
you will be able to do
here you have this team while
get work you will not achieve
and that’s how I went to talk to the
redactor of drafting of conte
they threw me out like they threw her out
come work here to work
with us and it was at that time
8000 process that we all know and it was
one how to relive
I was taking pictures again but happy
at that time a colleague and great friend
pedro ugarte
he was the head of the news agency
france press
He calls me and says black because he does not leave
for panama are looking for photography
having news agency is huge that
it’s like the big leagues
it does not matter you can he went to my house
I look at the photos
we made an issue some package said
Ready, it’s already gone, they’ll call you
the few days they call me the boss
regional and remember their phones
that had an antenna when the guy
he says to me I am the regional chief the antenita
I was shaking, as it says, I like it
your work and I want these already in
Panama
I could not believe I sold the
phone and with that money buy the
air ticket
I went with a suitcase of photos and a
suitcase of clothes and arrive to panama and there
start my path in this my long
road because it’s been long and
has finished this journey of
know different cultures and realities
hard and keep denouncing but it was already
other level
To know the world , I did not doubt it
second the desire came to me through the
pores
I must confess that this generosity
what is in this guild is huge despite
to be so macho two always had
colleagues who have given me a hand a
hand that I will always give you
thank you and then start another one
another way to be like the one
representative of photojournalism in
Colombia there are women photojournalists in
the country that has fought and continues to fight
very strong and I admire them
very much already passes the time and I am in
another agency called raters a
huge global level agency and the boss
from london call me and tell me eliana
we want you to have for irak and me
irak situ of the decision is yours
I went home I talked to my parents
They said their opportunity
Our procession has our clear support
it goes inside
we arrived in iraq with another colleague of
reuters
they told us that we were going to be in
prostrate in a bed in one in the
company charlie bouquets whole days
waiting for us to be told what to do
they leave me they do not let me take photos
a war where I could not take photos
because the military told me not to
you can take pictures and now the fight
constant but let me take pictures
I ‘m not
curly until the day came the great
day
the attack of faluyá 2004 we were
here the picture that you see there I am
me playing cards or not with a military
they were guys very young guys
who had never fought in a war
we are calm in that blue sky
that autumnal when it suddenly falls
a rockets
everything was chaos everything was like what happens
we throw under the hobbies and and
seconds later for here another mortar
it was like my god
in second I felt that I lost my life
that he had no job that everything
it vanished that all my dreams are
going to hell what was he going to do
they were seconds seconds when the
captain we all paralyzed in that
moment he made the captain of 60 all
we left running
I took my camera and started doing
photographs would not let me bring everything
it was with TV and you’re on top of the
first images that you have of
hurt this one is tac
it was hard very hard that until today what
I remember perfectly but after
That does not take away from me the desire to
keep fighting
although he was very afraid and despite
that I knew I had to face
more war I said I have the desire to
fight and I will do it I will continue
denouncing the agency sends Jerusalem
jerusalem israel a state that always
is in conflict
mm and one of the first assignments
I had was a Palestinian and an Israeli
are fighting to plant a tree
olive tree in a land
There was so much land that I said but
for God because they fight to sow a
tree
always which is the problem with all
the land that there is and they kept fighting and
they were still fighting whether this war was ever
it’s going to end
in fact they are still fighting but there is no need
go to wars to see scenes so
Dantesque like this one when I arrived at
earthquake of haiti was the same thing so
less in wars
people have the possibility to escape
but in an earthquake it is simply
luck and so it was
I went to the hospital to look for information
it was chaos people asked for help
everyone ran from one place to another
suddenly I get a room or not
even a room on stretchers with children
bloody little ones with arms
broken
It was horrible and I was the pp stretcher in
stretcher and my heart wrinkled
he was able to take pictures
my heart told me no, I did not go out crying
from that place
Then suddenly it was over I said no
more I do not want to see more dead and does
seven years I gave up waiving the
agency where a month is already crazy
how are you going to go from the agency reuters
and it does not matter because he’s the illusion and
passion and desire are diluting
I could not take more
the job that I had that was in
Mexico was killing because I could not
do
I could not see the light and that’s when
resigned and I decide to give space to my
personal life and
when I meet a person who has
taught to see the light again íes
ramón my husband who is here came
until here to accompany me
as a man always does
wonderful that teaches me day by day
until finding the light
we live in Cuba a Cuba that has color
and texture has light has life
that what I needed life and this
wonderful man has taught me
we are happy we do not have children
we have three cats we do not have a pump
because we go every day to take
photos to keep fighting keep showing
that if you can show cute things
despite the adversities is a place
that teach you that priorities are
different already reached a point where the
desire
every day I wake up with the desire
to keep looking for health
those roads to publicize these
images is a wonder now I am
I’m still a month photographer and
reinventing every day
I share my experiences with others
generations
people ask for you how he did
to do everything he has done I said
you know what you want the one who wants to
to go ahead does not fulfill what can be done
simply passion for what you want
so I ask you
you found the light have their
own light
I do found him next to my
ramón
thank you very much
the lionesses
and
and
ace
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