Colombia
Displaced: Quotidian Scenes from Western Colombia
(a work-in-progress film ) Directed and filmed by Karl Frost in collaboration with Dr Cody Ross of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Filmed in Choco and Risaralda in Western Colombia, the film juxtaposes scenes of daily life with excerpts of interviews about varying experiences of violent displacement. Colombia has an estimated […]
Quotidian Scenes
an exhibition of photographic anthropology by Karl Frost at the Max Planck Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig April 18 – July 30, 2019 Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig open hours 8:00 – 18:00 These photos and video stills were taken from the network of field sites associated with the Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and […]
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Graffiti art in Candeleria, Bogota, Colombia
Candeleria district, Bogota, Colombia, 19 February 2019 At the start of a 6 week trip to Colombia to work with Anthropologist Cody Ross, i stopped for a day in Bogota. Part of the day, I was able to take in the street art near the hostel i was staying at in the Candeleria district. Bogota […]
video collage from Bahia Solano, Chocó, Colombia
Bahia Solano, is a coastal town in Chocó, a province or “department” of Colombia on the Pacific coast. The legal economy there relies heavily on fishing, but it is also part of one of many transportation routes in the cocaine trade. Chocó itself is historically the center of Afro-Colombian community. Many Africans escaped slavery and […]