Remembering Ex-combatientes: A Visual Enquiry into the Social Memory of Colombia’s Former Combatants

Abstract

ABSTRACT This work forms part of the creative component of a visual arts PhD, which investigates the legacy of the Colombia’s internal conflict as seen through the eyes of former combatants. The resultant work and associative exegesis seeks to elucidate the manner in which alternative photographic practices intended to represent and mediate the trauma and lived experience of the Colombian conflict might help to interrogate notions of cultural memory and identity through the subjective choices made in its production.