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Stephen Ferry

The Photographers Lecture Series: Stephen Ferry

Date Oct 10, 2012
Type Lecture

Stephen Ferry is an award-winning documentary photographer who has travelled extensively in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa covering issues of social and political change, human rights, and the environment.

Ferry currently resides in Bogotá, Columbia where for the past 12 years he has been conducting photographic fieldwork examining unrest in the region. The result of this research, “Violentology: A Manual of the Columbian Conflict” is a nuanced reading of the history and current dynamics of the war. Challenging the official version of a battle between drug traffickers and law enforcement, “Violentology” focuses on human rights and on the struggle of Columbian civilians to resist violence from all parties to the conflict, including Marxist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, and state security forces. The project –which exists across three platforms: a traveling exhibition, a tabloid-style book, and free booklets available for download–brings together historical information and documents with original images and text based on interviews.

Shot over more than a decade, the images form a raw, arresting look at Colombia’s longstanding internal conflict, launched by the cocaine trade but now infinitely more complex... The breadth of this excellent collection accentuates an unwieldy and horrific topic, but one that is profoundly important. –Publishers Weekly

Stephen Ferry was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he learned to develop and print photographs at a young age by spending time at the Ferranti- Dege camera store and lab. Ferry’s work has received numerous prizes and honors and in 2011 he was awarded the first Tim Hetherington Grant by World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch to support his work on the Colombian conflict. Stephen teaches documentary practice at the Fundación para un Nuevo Periodism Iberoamericano, in Cartagena, Colombia, and at the International Center of Photography.