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 […]
In late 2016, the Colombian government and the FARC signed the Havana Peace Accords. The treaty aims to end Colombia’s fifty –year old internal conflict, which was marked by extreme violations of human rights by all parties. Hammered out over four years of negotiation, the accord seeks to address structural causes of the war through […]
This work, commissioned by the La Otra Bienal,document the urban gardens found within the Perseverancia neighbourhood of Bogotá. The exhibit was wheat -pasted on 5th Avenue, which runs along the western edge of this neighbourhood. in central Bogotá. La Otra Bienal: Here
The Fabric of Saharawi Resistance is an exhibition which references the tactile qualities of life in the refugee camps where Sahawari refugees have lived since 1976. The images are printed on canvas, sewed by hand and hung by ropes similar to those used in the camps to secure tents. The background to the images is […]
Images from Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict are laser printed on “Bulky” paper stock, then wheat – pasted or taped to the walls of exhibition spaces, classrooms or outside on the street. A clear diagram is provided to guide the host space in painting the background to the work. Text is printed on […]
This work documents the cultural resistance of the Saharawi people. The Saharawis are an ethnic group native to the Western Sahara that was formed over a thousand years ago by the mixing of Arabs of the Beni Hassan tribes, Berbers, and West African peoples. When their homeland was invaded in 1976 by Morocco, the Saharawi […]
Stray Bullet, Medellin 2001 20 x 30cm (uneditioned), signed on back Lambda chromagenic print on Kodak Endura semi-gloss US$400 ———- 66 x 100cm (edition of 10 + 2 artist prints), signed on back Lambda chromagenic print on Kodak Endura semi-gloss US$2000