Light Notes is a compendium of documentary photography and narratives made over the past four decades by the British-Colombian documentary photographer Paul Mark Smith. Short Tales is a collection of brief anecdotes linked to images and other blog writings about photography and other related themes.
The works are principally from Latin America more in Medellín, Colombia) and Britain (where I was born and grew up. The emphasis is on socio-economic and cultural themes and, additionally, there is a section on the Colombian armed conflict between the years 1994 and 2016, which sits apart to better explain the contexts and organise these into a fragmented timeline.
Parallel Noise is a section to showcase work done by students during my workshops; collaborative works done with different communities and cohorts during pedagogical theatre projects with victims of the Colombian armed conflict; and, also, other creative musings related to photography and audio-visuals.
HOMECOMING
NEVERLAND
AMERIGEN
Order in a God Given land
A Tale of One City · A Tale of Two Protests
Eternal Marches in the City of Eternal Spring · Colombia’s 2021 Social Explosion
Traces · #4
Images from the archives – Go to Gallery
2025/11/18 # – Copa Libertadores final · Atanasio Girardot, Medellín 2016
Fragments from a Perennial Conflict · 1994 – 2016
Light Notes · Short Tales 