Fruit of a six-year collaboration between photographer Stephen Ferry and his sister, the anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry, La Batea looks closely at small-scale gold mining in Colombia. The title refers to the wooden pan used in traditional mining since Pre-Columbian times. The book La Batea is published in Spanish with Icono Editorial and with Red […]
Fruit of a six-year collaboration between photographer Stephen Ferry and his sister, the anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry, La Batea looks closely at small-scale gold mining in Colombia. The title refers to the wooden pan used in traditional mining since Pre-Columbian times. La Batea documents the struggles of gold mining communities in Colombia to defend their […]
“Here is a photographer who thinks in book form—not as an afterthought, but in premeditated defiance of the slipperiness of truth and facts, working toward a physical object that is not just a testimony to what he witnesses, but a tactile experience that acts as a metaphor for the subject matter itself, including a series […]