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COLOMBIA V. 1

C-Print, 30 x 30 cms., 2009-2015

This Project develops around the name of “Colombia” as a place, which is presented outside “Colombia” as a place.

For this Project images of different places called “Colombia” had been taken in places that are not “Colombia”. Streets with this name in other cities from other countries. This is an ongoing Project and continues to grow as a collection of post cards that I obsessively look for whenever I have the opportunity of traveling outside of Colombia.

In this version, when I traveled to other places with the name "Colombia", I went over those places and I photographied with a Holga camera the thing that remember me my country. So I found escenes like marks against the war in Buenos Aires and Córdoba (ES), a liberty statue and the Embassy of the USA in Buenos Aires street, a "frog" game and a statue of Santander in Paris, a statue of Bolívar in Sevilla, a child with a toy gun in Barcelona and a spaniard woman with a latin domestic employee in Madrid, among other things.