@book {1403234, title = {Shooting Cameras for Peace / Disparando C{\'a}maras para la Paz}, year = {2020}, pages = {252}, publisher = {Peabody Museum Press}, organization = {Peabody Museum Press}, address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts}, abstract = {

Bronze Medal, 2021 IPPY Awards

Winner, 2021 John Collier Jr. Award

Honorable Mention, 2022 LASA\ Visual Culture Section Book Award

As a young Fulbright scholar in Bogot{\'a} determined to democratize the photographic gaze and bring new visions and voices to public debate about Colombia{\textquoteright}s armed conflict,\ Alexander L. Fattal\ founded Disparando C{\'a}maras para la Paz (Shooting Cameras for Peace). The project taught photography to young people in El Progreso, a neighborhood on the city{\textquoteright}s outskirts that was home to families displaced by violence in the countryside. Cameras in hand, the youth had a chance to record and reimagine their daily existence.

Shooting Cameras for Peace\ /\ Disparando C{\'a}maras para la Paz\ is a penetrating look at one of Latin America{\textquoteright}s most dynamic participatory media projects. The haunting and exuberant photographs made under its auspices testify to young people{\textquoteright}s will to play, to dream, and to survive. The images bear witness to the resilience and creativity of lives marked by a war that refuses to die.

With text in English and Spanish,\ Shooting Cameras for Peace\ /\ Disparando C{\'a}maras para la Paz\ makes vital contributions to studies of collaborative media, photographic activism, and peace and conflict in Colombia. Fattal{\textquoteright}s insightful text offers critical reflection on the genre of participatory photography and the structural challenges faced by similar media projects.

}, url = {https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780873658713}, author = {Alexander L. Fattal} }