
The 21st century was getting under way, but Colombia was being dragged down by a series of wars that had lasted almost two centuries. The experience was a negative epiphany that made him grasp the destructive impact that the Colombian armed conflict has had on the civilian population-not just on the armed actors. The photograph depicted a town reduced to ashes after members of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a guerrilla group founded in 1964, blew up an oil pipeline. Stephen Ferry was teaching a documentary photography workshop in Cartagena when he saw an image that revealed how very little he knew about violence in Colombia. Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict

Looking from Inside the Belly of the Beast
