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
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Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
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Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
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Colombia
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
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Colombia
Middle format Contax 645
40 x 50 cm
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Colombia
Gouache on paper
37 x 46 cm
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Colombia
Middle format Contax 645
40 x 50 cm
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Colombia
C-Print
145 x 278 cm
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Colombia
Gouache enhanced silver print
80 x 50 cm
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Colombia
Gouache on paper
65 x 74 cm
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Colombia
Gouache on paper
74 x 46 cm
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Colombia
Gouache on paper
42 x 32.5 cm
Maps
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Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm
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Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm
Making-of
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Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras
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Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras
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Colombia
© Gwen Le Bras
Image by Thomas Sady