Emily Fjaellen Thompson highlights the photographers whose work was presented in the series Fotos Desaparecidas as they documented Peru's Internal Armed Conflict.
Fotos Desaparecidas
Invisible Imprints of Glacial Melt
By Emma Steigerwald The Marbled water frog is believed to be important for its medicinal properties, as well as for its role in the ecosystem. (Photo by Emma Steigerwald). “When I was a child and the rain did not come,” adults sometimes told us, “my mother had me carry a frog far from the water,... Continue Reading →
The Bitter Side of Sweet: Peru’s Nutrition Transition
By Shane Fallon As a 2016 recipient of the Tinker Summer Research Grant from the Center for Latin American Studies, as well as the recipient of UC Berkeley's Center for Global Public Health Reporting Fellowship, my summer research project took me south of the hemisphere to Peru. My photojournalism project in the coastal, urban city... Continue Reading →
Latin America Moves Forward with Renewable Energy
By Steve Weissman You don’t need to convince the farmers in Bolivia’s Altiplano that their climate is changing, as weather patterns and drought become consistently more severe. Glaciers have retreated. Snow pack is short-lived. People living and working in these communities have no confidence that sufficient water will return to support plants and animals. Dramatic life... Continue Reading →
La Selva
The author, on the streets of Tarapoto, Peru. (Photo by Travis Gregg.) By Shane Fallon Stories of pink dolphins, anacondas, and piranhas piqued my curiosity to venture to the rainforest, or as it is called in Peru, la selva. My research finally brought me to this mysterious, tropical environment to learn more about Peru’s jungle... Continue Reading →
The Yaminawa Project: Documenting a Vanishing Language
by Jevon Heath María Luisa has painted her face in the traditional patterns but with a Sharpie marker rather than the pigments she used in her youth. Due to the heat of the evening and the exertions of cooking, sweat has erased most of the painted lines. The traditional Yaminawa repast she has prepared, a... Continue Reading →