Last photo for @burnmagazineI hope you enjoyed having me here. Thanks everyone for all the support, for reading my long stories and cheering me up. @burndiary reminded me how important is to keep sharing and talking in spaces like this one. My last photo represents a divided country. Each half calls itself unique and different, …
The price of the gas in here: less than a bottle of water. (Just letting you know…) this is @dianarangel sharing from Venezuela
Arriving from La Dolorita slum. I’m developing a NGO focused in preventing violence through participatory art. I’m totally inlove and inspired with this work. The slum landscape never tires me. Everyday I go to La Dolorita I find something new to see and to imagine from it. Long day I would like to end with …
Another thing I’ve been doing as part of my research project about the memory of petare is to open a free service to restore old images. Today I’ll work with five images. They belong to Domingo (his name translation in English is Sunday). He gave them to me in December and it is now that …
I arrived home from Petare, where everything was as usual as always and logged in my “pixelated news world” Twitter and Facebook, (the only reliable source in Caracas right now), and sadly found out that the march went bad, there is strong repression in Central University, my university, the university I teach my elective of …
Meanwhile in Altamira: the war is starting as usual. Altamira is five minutes away from where I live. My students are there, one of them was injured my a policeman. It is a month today since the protests began and life became something else, the routine is broken and the public news are disappearing. One …
I’ve been in Petare all day. I work in my personal and projects over there. Petare is the second biggest favela in South America. Around 400,000 people life over there. It is another universe, life another city, the cradle of violence in the capital.My project is about memory. How all this violence began. For that …
Hello @Burnmagazine ! I’ll be sharing my life on @burndiary for the next seven days in this interesting country called Venezuela. I was looking at this image when I received the email to begin with burn this week. Lately I’ve been trying to find silence around here. It is not easy when outside my house …
David Maurice Smith Living in the Shadows In 1835 the town now known as Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia was “discovered” by explorer Major Thomas Mitchell. Located far inland on the shores of the Darling river, the name originates from the largely disappeared language of the local Barkindji people and is thought to translate to …
