Photographs
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Siskiyou series
These photographs were taken in 2003 in the mountains around Etna, in northern California.
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 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.
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.
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.
The grave of Shining Path fighter Edith Lagos in Ayacucho, Peru.
A telephone token seller in Lima, Peru.
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