The images of the disaster left by the DANA depression in the province of Valencia (Spain) are horrifying. Despite being horrifying, in Colombia and around the world there will be hundreds of millions of human beings who still doubt that climate change and its multiple crises are a socio-environmental and […]
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North of the Rio Grande with Graciela Iturbide
The work of the award-winning Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was exhibited in London in August at the Photographer’s Gallery. One of her photos, shown in The Prisma’s review of the exhibition, was of four women standing in front of a wall mural of Benito Juárez and Villa y Zapata. […]
The emotion is the same, which is fear
In the case ofhuman beings, there is a “technical fault” that happens; men and women are also able to fear things or situations just by imagining them, without the thing or situation actually happening or being real. According to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, between 50-60% […]
Godot is also waiting
We are creatures of desire and, unlike the need of a hungry person for food, desire cannot be satisfied. Nor, unlike an infant’s demand for love, can it be assuaged and appeased. Review by Sean Sheehan Photos by Photo Marc Brenner We are all, in one way or […]
In Central America, impunity and poverty fuel crime
High rates of malnutrition, illiteracy, unemployment, miserable wages, failing and corrupt states, lack of basic public services, violence and mafia in several countries of the region make Central America a very unsafe place. Marcelo Colussi With socio-economic indices similar to those of Sub-Saharan Africa, structural problems are turning […]
















