Photograph by Juanita Escobar

Image Title: Llano

Dimensions: 17x24"

Medium: Digital Inkjet Print

Year Created: 2016

Signed on recto

Image Description:

Llano is an epic journey along the paths of the Llaneros, a people who live and travel along the savannas of the Orinoco basin in Colombia and Venezuela. The story unfolds between winter and summer, which is also the physical and psychological setting where the most intimate stories elapse of men and women who continue dreaming of a land of wild horses and distances without fences.

This project collects paths traveled for 10 years of coexistence with the Llaneros of Casanare, Colombia.

"My way of taking on life was hard. My eyes are flooded with distances, those roads where thoughts flourish. To wander is a primitive migration where what is necessary to live fits in a backpack and what is truly indispensable is in the confidence and character of your own heart."

Photographer's Bio:

Escobar is a self-taught photographer whose work with documentary photography focuses on gender and territory. She won the Colombian National Photography Prize in 2009 with her work Pueblo-Terra exhibited in the Santa Clara Museum, Bogota. She was selected for the prestigious World Press Masterclass Latin America 2015 in Mexico and the Joop Swart Masterclass 2017 in Amsterdam. In 2016 Juanita won the Portfolio Review Prize from National Geographic Society for her body of work.

https://juanita-escobar.format.com/