Index of Photographs, Notes & Anecdotes


Magdalena Medio · 1994/5
Human rights abuses & the paramilitary advance · Bolívar & Santander


In Clouds · 1994
Land invasions/occupations by economic and conflict displaced communities · Diana Turbay, Bogotá


Living and Dying on the Edge · 1995
Growing up in the marginal city neighbourhoods · Villa Lilian & La Sierra, Medellín


After Genesis · 1997
In the territories of the displaced after the Military & Paramilitary Offensive Genesis · Riosucio, El Chocó
After Genesis · 1997
Thousands forced to flee army offensive take refuge · Urabá, Antioquia
Resist to Exist · 1997
The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó · Urabá, Antioquia
For the Blood of the Earth · 1997
The indigenous U’wá people resist the oil companies · North Santander



In Hiding · 1997
Community leaders fleeing their would-be assassins · Quibdó, el Chocó


Invisible Victims · 1999
Mothers of La Candelaria & families of the disappeared · Medellín

Uprooted · 1999
Forcibly Displaced in the Aburrá Valley · Medellín


Handmade Homes · 1999
Displaced families in the city · Valle de Aburrá, Antioquia


Car Bomb · 1999
FARC militias attack the army’s GAULA · Barrio Estadio, Medellín
The Returnees · 2000
Afro-Colombian and Chilapa peace communities of Cacarica · Turbo, Antioquia/Atrato, El Chocó


Back to Zero · 2000
Fire destroys hundreds of homes on land occupied by displaced families · Vallejuelos, Medellín


The Killing Hills · 2000
Paramilitary massacre of civilians · Barbosa, Antioquia


Human Flotsam · 2000
FARC guerrillas displace rural families · San Rafael, Antioquia


Another’s Battleground · 2000
Paramilitaries slaughter townsfolk and prepare the scene for reprisals by FARC guerrillas · Granada, Antioquia


Guerrilla Grandstanding · 2001
FARC guerrillas perform and promenade for the big show · La Macarena, Meta


Captured or Kidnapped? · 2001
The FARC release hundreds of soldiers and police · La Macarena, Meta

Culture of Antioquia · 2001
Inconvenient truths · Alto de Minas


On the Highway · 2001
Medellín-Bogotá “Autopista” occupied by displaced communities · Bello, Antioquia


On the Highway · 2001
Guerrillas, Army, bandits and travellers on the national “motorway” · Cocorná, Antioquia


A Perverse Quid Pro Quo · 2001
Guerillas take cattle; paramilitaries take lives · Peque, Antioquia


Precision Burning · 2001
FARC masacre and burn in paramilitary coca town · La Caucana, Antioquia


After Bojayá · 2002
Airborn troops arrive & communities flee bombardments · Quibdó, El Chocó

Diaspora & the Heroic City Boglands · 2002
Displaced peoples · El Pozón, Cartagena


Orion’s Garrote · 2002
Guns ablaze, the military enters the 13th Commune, with paramilitaries in their wake · Medellín, Antioquia

Solitude · 2002
Paramilitary-control in the bananalands · Urabá, Antioquia


Display of the Dead · 2002
Showing the kill to the media · Santuario, Antioquia

El Chinga & El Ratón · 2002
Guns, gangs & minors · Medellín


Done Talking · 2002
The Pastrana government & FARC guerrillas close-off roads to peace · Puerto Rico, Caqueta

Rebel Heart · 2002
The guerrilla state within a state · San Vincente de Caguán


In the Hands of God · 2003
Fire in settlement of displaced families · Mano de Dios, Medellín

Men of Steel · 2003
The Colombian Army win Hearts & Minds · Barrio Estadio, Medellín
The Theatre of War · 2003
The Metro Block paramilitary carousel of youths between Medellín and the countryside · San Roque, Antioquia
Women in Black · 2003
Peace movement · Cocorná, Antioquia

Block Extinction · 2003
The last weeks of the Bloque Metro paramilitaries · Antioquia

Interview with an Uribe Vélez · 2003
President Álvaro breaks with protocol · Rionegro, Antioquia

Antioquia · 2003

Exhibitionists · 2003
The paramilitary Nutibara Block puts on a show with the gangs · Medellín, Antioquia


If You’re Fleeing to San Francisco · 2004
Fleeing bombardments and a military offensive · San Francisco, Antioquia


Swollen Figures · 2005
The Heroes of Granada Block of the Self-defences demobilises · Cristales, Antioquia


Resistance · 2005
Returnees resist the armed groups · Cacarica, El Chocó
Perder · Lost
The traces of lost lives and lost livelihoods · Urabá & Middle Magdalena
Caught in the Crossfire · 2010
The Awá walk the thin line between armed groups, coca leaf & convivence · Ricaurte/Barbacoas, Nariño
Sexual Malice in a Town Called Pleasure · 2014
Right-wing paramilitaries’ seven-year reign of terror · El Placer, Putumayo


Still bringing in the Leave$ · 2014
Coca and pepper the mix of crop substitution · San Miguel & La Hormiga, Putumayo


Un-disappeared · 2016
Reuniting victims of forced disappearance with families · Medellín, Antioquia


All About Castrochavism · 2016
Colombians grab the “paquete chileno” in the peace plebiscite · Rejecting the Peace Accords
Hidden Among the Leaves · Neverland
Living under the control of post-Accords mafias