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COLOMBIA


2006

Le refuge de Gladys, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper (detail)

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COLOMBIA
2006

Putumayo

“The education I received was based on an aversion to men, and paradoxically, geared towards marriage… At the age of 16, I left home.” Juana

Abstracts

"We found Juana in Puerto Aziz where she was stopping over on her way to Legizamo, at the far south of the Putumayo. Planes scared her far more than terrorists. She was going to the river port of Puerto Aziz, nicknamed 'Hong Kong,' to board the fast boat that would take eight hours to reach the city in the south. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the voyage is comparable to the one in Apocalypse Now.

The river is crisscrossed by Ejército military boats while the banks are rife with rebels, from one side or the other, hiding in the jungle. The Putumayo is a tributary of the Amazon, marking the borders of Peru and Ecuador, then that of Brazil. Gringos are advised against making the 'crossing'. Even though we were placed under their protection, the OSIP (an indigenous organization respected by the FARC) categorically warned us off from making the trip."

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

COLOMBIA 1387
Juana, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

COLOMBIA 1389
Juana 2, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

COLOMBIA 3465
Juana 3, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

COLOMBIA 1556
Putumayo, 2006

Colombia
Middle format Contax 645
40 x 50 cm

COLOMBIA 1544
Le refuge de Gladys, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
37 x 46 cm

COLOMBIA 1381
Gladys, 2006

Colombia
Middle format Contax 645
40 x 50 cm

COLOMBIA 3467
Le refuge de Gladys 2, 2006

Colombia
C-Print
145 x 278 cm

COLOMBIA 1397
Dominga, 2006

Colombia
Gouache enhanced silver print
80 x 50 cm

COLOMBIA 1552
Dominga et les cui, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
65 x 74 cm

COLOMBIA 1554
Dominga et l'oiseau, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
74 x 46 cm

COLOMBIA 1403
Cui, 2006

Colombia
Gouache on paper
42 x 32.5 cm

Maps

COLOMBIA 1374
The languages of Colombia, 2006

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

COLOMBIA 1375
The languages of Colombia 2, 2006

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

Making-of

Illustration Making Of
Gladys' sanctuary, 2006

Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras

Illustration Making Of
Juana and the Putumayo river, 2006

Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras

Illustration Making Of
Portrait of Dominga, 2006

Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras

Film by Marc Jampolsky

Image by Thomas Sady

Books

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