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THEY ARE WATCHING US<\/div>\n
Carolina Navas, Colombia<\/div>\n

I have been interested in portraying the young people who live in Tumaco \u2015a rural area on the Colombian Pacific coast\u2015 and yet are influenced by the eclecticism of the globalized world. These young people\u2019s existence serves as a metaphor for adversity, as does the geography they inhabit, where marginalization coexists with beauty and hope.<\/p>\n

These pictures were taken in one of the regions with the greatest prevalence of coca plantations in Colombia. It is also an important transportation hub for cocaine to other parts of the world. The town\u2019s geographical location, as well as its residents\u2019 low incomes, their lack of access to education, and a deficient healthcare system are factors that have led to the rise of armed guerrilla groups, violence, and drug-trafficking, whose victims are most often young men. The town is currently a refuge for dissident guerrilla groups that used to form part of the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).<\/p>\n

They Are Watching Us<\/i> is a series that explores the identity and context of teenagers who survive in the unpredictable context of one of the regions most affected by armed conflict. They are young dancers and musicians who challenge with dignity what would seem to be their fate: being drafted into the war or forced to join criminal gangs, owing to the widespread belief that they have no other opportunities in life.<\/p>\n

Carolina Navas<\/p>\n

CAROLINA NAVAS<\/div>\n
(b. 1978) Cali, Colombia<\/div>\n

Portraiture is the central theme in the work of Carolina Navas, which highlights the singularity of human faces, as well as the objects and clothing that surround the body. Navas has directed documentary series for Colombian public television and produced still photographs for the feature films Los Hongos<\/i> (2014), La Sirga<\/i> (2012), and Calicalabozo<\/i> (1997). Her series of photographs Nos miran<\/i> (They Are Watching Us) was awarded a stimulus grant for the visual arts by the city of Cali in 2017. She is the author of Tumaco<\/i> (2018), a volume in the Pewen Cuadernos Fotograf\u00eda collection published by MUGA. In 2018 she received a Gamleby Photo Grant to complete an artist\u2019s residency in Sweden and premiered Fullhachede<\/i>, her first feature-length documentary, which she directed and photographed in collaboration with Catalina Torres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-proyecto-en.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}