Unearthing Memory

Unearthing memory is a tour of the territories most affected by the armed conflict in Colombia, taken as spaces where the greatest massacres and violence caused by this war occurred. It is, in turn, an exercise in memory and giving a voice to women, constant victims of this war that went through their bodies. Through the image, the photographed women decide how they want to see their problems of exile, death and struggle represented. There are also portraits with projections of loved ones who were murdered or disappeared during the conflict, motivated by the need of Colombian society for reparation and memory. A story in which women are the protagonists and where the need to rescue and not is evident. forget neither the names nor the facts.

The Truth Commission presented its final report on the armed conflict in June 2022. The figures record at least 450,664 homicides as a result of the conflict and indicate 121,768 people were missing, some
55,770 kidnapped and up to 7.7 million victims of forced displacement.

Colombia is going through one of the longest and most complex conflicts in the world. It is also the country where the victims have formed one of the most combative civil societies, made up mostly of women.
Despite the fact that, according to Amnesty International, it is also the place where the most people die defending human rights.