Colombia Natural Parks

Christoph Drange travelled to Venezuela in early 2013. He focused his attention on the phenomenon of a socialist society that retains several vestiges of capitalism and is characterised by a culture of inequality.His photographs show the encounter between the aspiration and reality of a socialist country, which actually isn't one. Hecho En Socialismo - Socialism Today in Venezuela is more than a documentary snapshot.It is primarily a reflection and self-questioning on the current potential of a socialist alternative in the face of an all-encompassing, global capitalism.German, English and...

En la década de los treinta del siglo XX, el fotoperiodismo alcanzó su esplendor. La actividad en años anteriores, debido al desarrollo de la prensa ilustrada, propició la toma de conciencia de un colectivo tradicionalmente desunido y acostumbrado a trabajar en solitario. Aunque se ha escrito que la fotografía de reportaje no consiguió su elemento definidor hasta la guerra civil, lo cierto es que años antes, sobre todo tras proclamarse la Segunda República, la información gráfica ya era imprescindible en la prensa periódica.

Theoretical-critical texts on photographs taken by different authors and time periods, the violence of the documentary photography and a final reflection on the practice of photography and the possibilities of communication of images. Finally, this book is, as far as possible, provides a look again at the photograph made in Latin America, but trying to do so from the decolonized perspective, from a certain autonomy of thought, from the freedom of enunciation.ʺ (HKB Translation) Page 9.

The book presents the photographs that Vertiz (b. México) shot while traveling for 1 year in India. Poets Blanco (b. México) and Cross write inspired in Vertiz' graphic recollection of the beauty and hardships of the day-to-day in India.