Colombia: Between the Lines - Softcover

Howe, Jason P.

9780955912504: Colombia: Between the Lines

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0955912504 ISBN 13: 9780955912504

Publisher: ConflictPics, 2008

Nervous policemen patrolling an oil rich border town, a wounded Government soldier lying next to his dead colleagues, a rebel couple kissing, displaced families building new homes and a self confessed killer reading her daughter a bedtime story; these are some of the characters that inhabit the shadowy and dangerous world in which photojournalist Jason P. Howe immersed himself over a period of five years to document the Colombia behind the headlines.

Sensational news stories and cold analysis insulate us from the reality of daily life for the thousands of Colombians that have taken up arms and the millions that have fled their homes to escape the violence. These stark images reduce the decades of conflict to the basic human struggle to survive. The difference between victim and victor, rebel and refugee, assassin and activist is often only a matter of perspective. The conflict constantly evolves as ideologies, politics, social injustice and most importantly greed continue to add fuel to a self perpetuating war that is resulting in one of the world's worst and most under reported humanitarian disasters.

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From the Publisher:

Each edition contains 85 black and white photographs and 32 pages of accompanying text including a foreword by Garry M. Leech, an introduction by Jason Burke as well as entries from the photographer's journal.

About the Author:

Jason P. Howe is a self taught freelance photographer. Born in England in 1971 he has spent a decade travelling throughout Latin America. Since 2001 he has devoted himself to documenting conflicts beginning with Colombia and going on to cover the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon.

His images have appeared in, amongst other places, TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, US News and World Report, The Financial Times, Le Figaro Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, The Times, The Observer, Rolling Stone, GQ, Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Marie Claire, The Guardian, The Independent, Esquire, Arena, USA Today, El Tiempo and NACLA

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