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118 pages : illustrations, portraits + one booklet (24 unnumbered pages). Numbered edition of 1000. "Japanese style stab binding (double folded pages), which allows opening the folds with a thread where a piece of lead hangs. Paradoxically, the lead ('plomazo") was the one that caused the death of their children."-- publisher. Prólogo. Madres terra / Sebastián Ramírez H. Black and white photography. In Spanish. Accompanying booklet with English translation. Since 2008, photographer Carlos Saavedra and anthropologist Sebastián Ramírez have worked with the association "Madres de Falsos Positivos de Soacha y Bogotá" (MAFAPO) made up of mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of the men killed by soldiers of the Colombian National Army in an illegitimate manner and who presented their bodies as those of guerrilla fighters to collect financial bonuses for such killings offered by the Colombian government during the government of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (between 2006 and 2009). Saavedra's project "Madres Terraʺ is based on the interaction between the earth and this group of mothers, focusing on the roles of both mothers and the earth soil as life givers. In this photographic series, a new world is created in which the models, without any physical effort, are half buried. The burial ritual represents a special moment in which the known physical world is altered, the body changes, symbolizing these mothers' rebirth. The 15 mothers represented are part of the first group of women who made public the disappearances of their children, and whose efforts resulted in the revelation of one of the darkest facets of the guerrilla war in Colombia. Stab binding, red thread. Folded pages. Textured cover. Bookmark, and folded page opener?, held with same red thread with a lead ball tied at the end. Library has copy no. 916.
ISBN
Saavedra_MadresTerras.pdf
Publication Date
2022
Imprint / Year
Manizales, Colombia : Raya Editorial, 2022.
Publisher
Raya Editorial
City
Manizales
Keywords
Traditional format; folded books; thread; bookmarks; lead (metal); texture; color photography; Colombia; maternity; women; guerrilla warfare; black-and-white photography; color photographs
Disciplines
Photography
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Recommended Citation
"Madres Terra" (2022). Photography. 43.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_photography/43