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Racism in photography

Visual representations of race are shot through with racist attitudes and “Decolonising the camera” examines this through a series of case studies.   Sean Sheehan   In 1945, Life magazine – a large-format (36cm by 26cm) and hugely influential publication – produced six pages of photographs showing the horrors that […]

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Pilar Navarrete: disappearance, torture, and execution of an innocent (II)

It was 27 hours of anguish that resulted in death, torture and disappearance in the lives of many. It happened in the Palace of Justice, between 6 and 7 November 1985, and stained the history of the Colombian people with blood. Years later, relatives of the disappeared are still asking where the disappeared are and who will punish those responsible for it?