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How Much Pain We Can Endure?
How much pain we can endure?
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¿Cuánto dolor podemos abrazar?
Juan Pajaro
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia 2019
Free culture license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License e-mail: juanrapave@gmail.com Facebook: elojodepajaro Instagram: @elojodepajaro This photo essay was made using Free Software
A group of women, victims of the long civil war in Colombia, performeda protest asking to the goverment to stop the killing of social leaders inthe country
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I can no longer walk on this path, just seeing their expressions moved me, maybe they don't understand it and see my distance as antipathy, but it's not like that, I feel everything they do, my voice breaks along with theirs my tears in mirror mimic theirs emotions, I hate being this, the walking contradiction of a sea sponge and a turtle, I want my skin to be thicker and let that feeling pass, the one that only the oppressed can feel, I hate this system for creating us, for placing ourselves in the place of another, for forcing us to arm ourselves day after day, after stories of pain in search of emancipation...
Text & Photos by Juan Pajaro
