LIVING IN BOGOTÁ
 
In the last years Colombia has been brought into discredit in the international press by drug-trafficking, guerrilla and kidnapping. Together with the author Cornelia von Schelling we wanted to understand and document, how people live and cope with the obvious and hidden lurking danger. Along our journey, we met women and their families wanting to live a "normal"life, but who have been partly victimized by political cirumstances or who had been threatened in one way or another.
A series of portraits of women emerged, among others: two movie-stars of the colombian television and cinema industry, a maid, juggling between her work and raising her son, a wealthy woman, who has been kidnapped by members of the FARC-movement and Nidia, a refugee, among a million other expellees, who have escaped their villages, as they have been overtaken by the FARC.
The following series [01-05] shows Nidia, a refugee, who has escaped her village and found shelter in Bogotá in an abandoned  house of the Red Cross in the wealthy part of downtown Bogotá, la "zona rosa". [06-10], the movie actresses, Natalia and Florina. [11-20], Kevy, a young girl from the carrabean coast, who had to move away to the capital due to economical reasons with her family. She works as a maid 6 days a week and raises her little son with the help of her family.
The reportage has been realized for the german Marie Claire in 2003.


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