Colombia Farc ceasefire: The man who photographed a little-pictured war

Colombians are choosing whether to join to a truce with the Farc rebel gathering, and put a conclusion to over 50 years of war. One picture taker - Jesus Abad Colorado Lopez - archived the savagery in his pictures over numerous years, as his previous associate, the BBC's Juan Carlos Perez Salazar, clarifies.



Unusually, regardless of the Colombian war's life span, there are not very many characterizing pictures recording it.

Jesus Abad Colorado Lopez is the picture taker who has maybe best caught the torment of the war in the course of recent years. However, this story starts before his introduction to the world, with a photograph that he didn't take.

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In 1960, his grandparents were living with their family in the town of San Carlos, Antioquia, amidst Colombia. It was the period that is alluded to inside the nation now basically as La Violencia - The Violence. Sympathizers of the two primary political gatherings - Liberal and Conservative - confronted each other in a bleeding war.

Jesus Abad Colorado's grandparentsImage copyrightJESUS ABAD COLORADO

His grandparents were Liberals in a Conservative town.

One night the crowd came into their home, murdering the granddad and slitting the throat of the littlest tyke - a young man. The grandma quit eating and she passed on pain stricken four months after the fact.

The family felt they needed to escape to Medellin, the capital of Antioquia. Be that as it may, they hadn't got away savagery and got themselves again living with war from the 1970s through to the 1990s.

Operating at a profit and white photo of Colorado Lopez's grandparents, you can follow the underlying foundations of the present viciousness in Colombia.

The bipartisan battle that constrained out the family was the starting point of the Farc and of the war that has expended Colombia in the course of recent decades.