The Photography of 'Indigenous Voices'
The Photography of 'Indigenous Voices'
Photographer Liliana Merizalde tells the personal the stories behind her work, featured in the second installment of AQ's "Cultura."
"Inner Disruptions" is a project with indigenous women from different communities and ethnic groups of the department of Vaupés, Colombia. After a close encounter with each one of them, I used their life’s stories in order to put together in each case a different prosthesis which extends, limits, covers, outlines or highlights their bodies or one of its parts. Thus transforming objects into symbols of pain or loss and into material manifestations of their suffering and strength. They are women who have led strenuous lives for different reasons - including the estrangement of their...
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