Vanessa Rugeles
Untitled, from "Jesús Abad Colorado, Mirar de la vida profunda"
Cocorná (Antioquia), 2003
Gabriel Arturo Villegas cries over his daughter that was kidnaped by ELN Colombian gerrilla. What they asked in return is for him to kill the leader of the Paramilitares. They gave him two days.
The image depicts how devastating has been the war in my country for over five decades. The black and white filter gives the viewer the sense of melancholy and horror we have been living through for the past fifty-two years.
