| Juanchaco | Buenaventura | 2011
Buenaventura sits on a series of islands amid swampy mangroves, the Pacific Ocean washing up to the slums that perch precariously on the edges of the city. The crack of gunfire is heard every day here as the security forces seek to take control of this strategic city. Colombia’s civil conflict, now raging for more than four decades, has for the most part been conducted in the jungles in the south of the country, far from the cities where 70% of Colombians live. Yet now Buenaventura finds itself in the midst of an urban war hitherto unknown in the country.
