Shooting cameras for peace: youth, photography, and the Colombian armed conflict = Disparando camaras para la paz : juventud, fotografia y el conflicto armado colombiano

"As a young Fulbright scholar in Bogotá, determined to democratize the photographic gaze and bring new visions and voices to public debate about Colombia's armed conflict, Alexander L. Fattal founded Disparando Cámaras para la Paz (Shooting Cameras for Peace). The project taught photograph...

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Main Author: Fattal, Alexander L. (Author)
Other Authors: Sommer, Doris 1947- (Author of afterword, colophon, etc.), Klatt, Andrew (Translator), Ramírez, María Clemencia (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts Peabody Museum Press [2020]
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Summary:"As a young Fulbright scholar in Bogotá, determined to democratize the photographic gaze and bring new visions and voices to public debate about Colombia's armed conflict, Alexander L. Fattal founded Disparando Cámaras para la Paz (Shooting Cameras for Peace). The project taught photography to young people in El Progreso, a neighborhood in the city's outskirts that was home to families displaced by violence in the countryside. It offered the youth of that troubled region a chance to record and reimagine their daily lives. Shooting Cameras for Peace is an in-depth look into one of Latin America's most dynamic participatory media projects. The haunting and exuberant photographs testify to the young people's will to play, to dream, and to survive, bearing witness to the resilience and creativity of lives marked by a war that refuses to die. With text in English and Spanish, Shooting Cameras for Peace / Disparando Cámaras para la Paz makes vital contributions to studies of collaborative media, photographic activism, and peace and conflict studies in Colombia. Fattal's insightful text is both a celebration of the program he initiated and a critical reflection on the genre of participatory photography and the structural challenges faced by similar media projects"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Physical Description:251 Seiten
ISBN:9780873658713

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