Jesus Abad Colorado


Serrania de San Lucas-Boliviar. A guerlla from the ELN (the National Liberation Army) rests on the shores of the Santo Domingo river. Since 1986 this armed group has caused spills of millions of barrels of oil across Colombian rivers and forests.
Series: Landscapes and Battles:Two wings wait for the end of the tragedy
Black and White. Ilford HP5
105 x 70 cm
1995
Department of Bolivar, Colombia

I Municipio de Bojaya-Choco. Nature, like resistance, sprouts anew in the destroyed and abandoned police headquarters of the town, attacked by guerillas in 2000. Municipio de Segovia-Antioquia. The woods of “Machuca” and its rivers turned into hell for 80 residents of Segovia that died in the fire. This tragic loss of nature and of life, so often repeated, was in this case caused by an attack by the ELN guerillas Municipio de La Hormiga-Putumayo. On Tuesday, after the dynamite attack on the oil pipeline, the oil spill drowned the entire landscape. On Wednesday, the first rays of light hit caught raindrops. In 2001 these scenes around oil pipelines were repeated a Municipio de Orito-Putumayo. The current of water and oil flows fast after an attack on the transandean oil pipeline on the border with Ecuador. These oil spills cause serious environmental tragedies. Serrania de San Lucas-Boliviar. A guerlla from the ELN (the National Liberation Army) rests on the shores of the Santo Domingo river. Since 1986 this armed group has caused spills of millions of barrels of oil across Colombian rivers and forests. Tierralta-Cordoba. A group of AUC (United Self-defense Forces of Colombia) paramilitaries premare to march to the area where they will hold a dialogue with the government. These groups, working for drug traffickers and corrupt politicians, took more than Municipio De Bojaya-Choco. The marks left on the forest by confrontations between the armies of the paramilitaries and the guerillas symbolize the tragedy that happened in this town’s church, where a hundred civilians who were seeking refuge from the comb Municipio De Riosucio-Choco. The marks left by aerial bombs dropped by the Colombian army alongside action by paramilitary groups remain as proof of the confrontation with the FARC guerillas. This battle led to the displacement of nearly 10,000 inhabita Rio Atrato-Choco. Caught in the middle of combat between FARC guerillas and the Colombian army, hundreds of residents flee the area to try to protect their lives. Municipio de Jurado-Choco. The Colombian army on the Pacific coast, after an attack by the FARC guerillas on an army base that killed 26 soldiers, a police officer and one civilian Juradó is on the border with Panama, and very far from those that govern

Biography
Jesús Abad Colorado López, born in Medellín, Colombia in 1967, is one of the few photojournalists documenting the many faces and features of the... more

Artist statement
Landscapes and Battles: Two wings wait for the end of the tragedy Prix Pictet 2008 Jesús Abad Colorado López Colombia is a country rich... more


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