Shooting cameras for peace : youth, photography, and the Colombian armed conflict / Alexander L. Fattal ; photographs by the young people of Altos de Cazucá; afterword by Doris Sommer ; Spanish translation by Andrew Klatt and María Clemencia Ramírez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fattal, Alexander L., author.

Contributor:

Sommer, Doris, 1947- writer of afterword.

Klatt, Andy, translator.

Ramírez, María Clemencia, translator.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Vernacular photography--Colombia--Soacha.

Vernacular photography.

Vernacular photography--Colombia--Soacha--Pictorial works.

Youth and war--Colombia--Soacha.

Youth and war.

Youth and war--Colombia--Soacha--Pictorial works.

Photography in ethnology--Colombia--Soacha.

Photography in ethnology.

Photography in ethnology--Colombia--Soacha--Pictorial works.

Soacha (Colombia)--Pictorial works.

Soacha (Colombia).

Colombia--Soacha.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 x 28 cm

Other Title:

Disparando cámaras para la paz : juventud, fotografía, y el conflicto armado Colombiano

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Peabody Museum Press, [2020]

Language Note:

This book has been fully translated into Spanish and contains English text side-by-side with the Spanish.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Container of: Fattal, Alexander L. Shooting cameras for peace.

Container of: Fattal, Alexander L. Shooting cameras for peace. Spanish.

ISBN:

9780873658713

087365871X

OCLC:

1121421036