Photographs

Taken while reporting in Colombia and Ecuador, 2015 onwards.

Sogamoso, Colombia, 2018. A forensic technician takes a blood sample from a woman looking for her missing father. The DNA will be entered into the national database and compared with unidentified bodies.
Pedernales, Ecuador, 2016. Rescuers at dusk.
Colombia, 2019. Farmer Romulo Lozano watches as Colombian coffee federation advisor John James Gomez examines coffee tree seedlings on Lozano’s farm.
Cauca, Colombia, 2015. Ramiro Almendra and Rosa Delia Fernandez have been displaced twice by the conflict. They abandoned their last home, where they ran a restaurant, in 2012 when military planes began bombing a FARC camp nearby.
Colombia, 2016. Picking a harvest damaged first by the El Niño drought and then by La Niña rains.
Vetas, Santander, Colombia, 2018. The Last Supper hangs in a small restaurant in the high-altitude mining town.
Sogamoso, Colombia, 2018. A forensic technician holds the photo of a missing man as he takes down a disappearance report.
Yarí Plains, Colombia, 2016. FARC rebels shore up a road ahead of the congress that ratified the peace deal with the government.
Planadas, Tolima, Colombia, 2018. A warehouse worker weighs sacks of coffee brought in by farmers for quality testing.
California, Santander, Colombia, 2018. Martin Rangel pans for gold in the California river.
Pedernales, Ecuador, 2016. Rescuers spent days at the beachside Hotel Royal, removing at least five bodies.