Madres terra / Carlos Saavedra, Sebastián Ramírez, Mafapo.

Primera edición.

Manizales, Colombia : Raya Editorial, 2022.

118 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. + one booklet (24 unnumbered pages, 18 cm.)

SMLAOB copy is no 586 of 1000.

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.

Spanish; English

October 04, 2023

Prólogo. Madres terra / Sebastián Ramírez H.