joana toro

Photographer and educator—Working in issues of immigration identity and social justice

www.joanatoro.com

Colombia on my mind

Location: Colombia

Nationality: Colombian

Biography: Joana Toro Colombian is a self-taught photographer based in both New York City and Bogota, Colombia. Her work explores issues of immigration, human rights and identity and was featured on The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian... read on

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Cusio,Cundinamarca ,Colombia, Portrait of my Grandmother in her kitchen meanwhile we wait for lunch time.

Cusio,Cundinamarca ,Colombia, Portrait of my Grandmother in her kitchen.

Cundinamarca, Colombia, heritage touristic train (train of the Sabana) in motion near to Nemocom town station.

Bogota, Colombia, Marginal neighborhood where people use recycling as livelihood.

Boyaca, Colombia countryside bar.

Bogota,Colombia, Marginal neighborhood where people use recycling as livelihood.

Bogota,Colombia, religion procession into a healthy neighborhood at North of the city.

Bahia Solano,Choco Colombia two girls playing into the town school.

Monteria,Cordova,Colombia mother and his son into their house that is also a pool hall.

Bogota Colombia fire in the south of the capital.

Bogota, Colombia naked protest during a rally for civil rights in the capital street.

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A group of men are working in manual eradication of Coca crops

Detail of the table into the country state property of the drug lord Elizabeth Montana de Sierra “la monita retrechera” as a apart of the domain extinction by Colombian Army.

San Martin, Meta,Colombia Each year since the 18th century San martin’s people have staged an elaborate event that symbolizes the origin of the Latin American peoples as forged in war and conquest.

San Martin, Meta,Colombia Each year since the 18th century San martin’s people have staged an elaborate event that symbolizes the origin of the Latin American peoples as forged in war and conquest.

San Martin, Meta,Colombia Each year since the 18th century San martin’s people have staged an elaborate event that symbolizes the origin of the Latin American peoples as forged in war and conquest.

Cartagena,Colombia,female boxer after training routine in spite of insufficient support for female boxing in Colombia.

Bogota,Colombia, An exotic dancer go on stage in a house of prostitution in the center of the city.

Bogota Colombia, Gay Parade in Bogota streets.

Bogota Colombia prisoners cut hair into the barbershop of the Central Penitentiary “La Picota”.

Bogota Colombia, a Couple in the street of “el Catucho" that was one of the poorest and most dangerous areas in Colombia this street was destroyed and replaced by a park.

Bogota,Colombia A prostitute in her bed into a house of prostitution in the center of the city.

Bogota Colombia, detail of house war refugees.

Monteria,Cordova,Colombia family house into a Marginal neighborhood.

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Public Story

Colombia on my mind

Credits: joana toro

Date of Work: 12/31/69 - Ongoing

Updated: 07/13/19

Location: Colombia

Archived as: Belief, Documentary, Editorial, Personal, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Street, Travel

I was born in a country with an on-going civil war, just like my mother and grandmother. Colombia on My Mind is a personal journal that reflects how Colombians live and raise their families, and conduct their lives with this endless situation of corruption, impunity, pace processes and war in the background. The interpretations of these images depend on the subjectivity of the viewer. For me as a Colombian, life in my country is a state of waiting, living every day in the middle of invisible boundaries that divide our country. The wonder of peace.