El Chocó is a rain forest area, traditionally isolated from and abandoned by the rest of Colombia. Over 80% of the population is Afro-Colombian, descendants of slaves brought by the Spanish to mine gold. 10% are indigenous. The area has long been one of the poorest in Colombia, though the ...

Located on the northernmost tip of South America, the harsh and arid Guajira Peninsula straddles the border of Venezuela and Colombia. Until recently, it was rarely visited by outsiders, due in part to its Wild West reputation as a hub for trafficking in humans, drugs, and other items, and as the ...

Each day as many as a thousand Colombians are forcefully displaced from their lands and forced to flee to cities where their identity is swallowed

Colombian Resilience People of San Carlos are traumatized. For decades they have suffered under the violence between guerrilla and paramilitary forces. Everybody can report murdered family members. I photographed their stories. I was in Medellin in 2010 for the first time...

August 25, 2013, Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia, comments on the agrarian demonstrations. The main roads are then blocked by peasants. "The so-called agrarian strike does not exist", he announces, peremptory. Even if the president goes back on this declaration...

Sabiduría a flor de piel (Wisdom on the skin) is a visual homage to some of the elders of the aboriginal people Nasa and Misak from Colombia. Women and men who are pillars for their communities and which knowledge and life must be taken into account for a better future...

Since 2013, I have been photographing the daily resistance of communities in the department of El Chocó, Colombia to violence and threats to their environment and cultures. One theme has been mining for gold, especially the dangers that recent mechanized mining present to the environment, to ...

Aguasal is the central village in the Embera-Katió indigenous reservation of Alto Andágueda, in the department of El Chocó on the Pacific coast of Colombia. The area is isolated, in the foothills of the Andes-the Embera were pushed into this area from their lowland ...