Light Notes and Short Tales

Documentary Photography · Paul Mark Smith

Light Notes-Short Tales is a compendium of documentary photography and writings made over the past four decades by the British-Colombian documentary photographer Paul Mark Smith.

The works are principally documentary and editorial photography from Colombia, Latin America, Britain and some from elsewhere.



Eternal Marches in the City of Eternal Spring · Colombia’s 2021 Social Explosion




Short Tales: Overground and Underground on the Front Line of Environmental Protest

Manchester, Britain • 1997



Una colección creciente de imágenes – notas en luz – de la vida cotidiana en los municipios que forman la Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá, una gran conurbación urbana de casi cinco millones de personas en el oeste de la Cordillera Central de las montañas de los Andes. Desde 1994 hasta el presente.

Simplemente y eternamente gente común y corriente – Everyday People




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.