Knife fights, gangs, street kids, crack smoking dens, battles with law enforcement troops… Divested of judgement or compassion, the photographer draws up a striking fresco of the underworld of Bogota, of its misery, of revolt and of delinquency. His journey into the Cartucho takes us to the heart of all violence and of all excesses. The artist describes, through his pictures, a drifting humanity whose only future lies in survival within the concrete jungle.
It is of little importance that this theme was treated in Colombia, the reality of this series is of universal reach and points at the risks involved in segregationist policies.
THE KINGDOM OF THIEVES