Remembering Excombatientes: A Visual Enquiry into the Social Memory of Colombia’s Former Combatants

Abstract

This creative thesis consists of an exegesis and a creative component through which it investigates the legacy of Colombia's internal armed conflict as seen through the eyes of former combatants. The thesis seeks to elucidate the manner in which alternative photographic practices intended to represent and mediate the trauma and lived experience of the Colombian conflict might help to interrogate notions of cultural memory and identity through the subjective choices made in its production.