Photographs


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Siskiyou series

These photographs were taken in 2003 in the mountains around Etna, in northern California.

Wocus Lily
Taylor Lake with Wocus Lily
Emporium in Callahan
Scott Mountain Cedar
Mt Bolivar Grange

Wocus lilies - These flowers appear in early summer on Taylor Lake, above Etna California.

Taylor Lake, near Etna, California

The Emporium Bar and General Store in Callahan, California

A cedar on Scott Mountain

The Mt. Bolivar Grange in Callahan, California

 

Colombia series

These photographs were taken as part of my work as a journalist and investigating human rights abuses for Human Rights Watch and the U.S. Committee for Refugees.

Josue with Civic Committee of Meta
Mother mourns murdered family in Meta Colombia
Petroleum Christ in Barr
Robin Kirk with General Rito
Three generations of displaced Colombians

Josue Giraldo (second from right) with other members of the Meta Civic Committee for Human Rights. Giraldo was murdered on October 13, 1996. His murderer was never caught.

This mother is mourning her husband and five children, all murdered on the same day.

This Christ was commissioned by the oil workers' union in Barrancabermeja, the site of Colombia's main refinery.

Robin Kirk interviews General Rito Alejo del Rio in his office at the 17th Brigade in Carepa, Antioquia. My friend Jennifer Bailey took the picture.

This represents three generations of forced displacement within the same family, then living in a Bogota slum.

Soldiers in Uraba

These soldiers clowned for me in Uraba, the banana-growing region of northern Colombia.

 

Peru series

These photographs were taken as part of my work as a journalist and investigating human rights abuses for Human Rights Watch and the U.S. Committee for Refugees.

Ronderos march in Huanta Peru
Refugee beside his home in Chincho near Lima
Memorials at a body dumping spot in Peru
Rondero in Purus
Carmen Rosa and Cromwell Catillo talk about Ernesto their son

Members of an army-backed peasant patrol march in Huanta, Peru.

A refugee stands beside the home he built outside Lima.

These memorials were etched in rock near an area used by the army to dump bodies in Huanta, Peru.

This rondero, or patroller, was showing where Shining Path columns passed above the village of Purus, in Ayacucho.

Carmen Rosa and Cromwell Castillo remember their son, Ernesto, 'disappeared' by Peruvian police.

Grave of Edith Lagos in Ayacusho
Street seller in Lima

The grave of Shining Path fighter Edith Lagos in Ayacucho, Peru.

A telephone token seller in Lima, Peru.


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