‘I took this in 2017, when Didiller was nine. A few years ago, I returned to the area and asked about him, but couldn’t find him. Someone told me he had been killed’
I fell in love with photography when I was 19, while studying Spanish and doing voluntary work in Venezuela. Having grown up in the quite boring countryside of Denmark, I was curious about the rest of the world and had become socially and politically engaged. Walking down a street in Mérida with an old camera in my hand, I realised this was the perfect medium to push for the values I believed in, to try to make a change in the world.
This was when I also became fascinated by the neighbouring country of Colombia, where civil war was causing great instability. I would later travel there for a project about the Amazon rainforest, and in 2016 I was commissioned by the Nobel Peace Center to cover the final stages of the peace process. I also focused on the millions of people who had been displaced within the country due to the conflict, but it felt like I couldn’t talk about turmoil and inequality in Columbia without looking at how its problems were influenced by the country’s production of cocaine.
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‘I took this in 2017, when Didiller was nine. A few years ago, I returned to the area and asked about him, but couldn’t find him. Someone told me he had been killed’I fell in love with photography when I was 19, while...
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