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DESAPARECIDOS & VÍCTIMAS DEL OLVIDO
A look at the forced disappearances suffered by thousands, from the moment of their detentions through to their return to their families. Images from the last decades of the twentieth-century and the first years of the twenty first. Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, El Salvador, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Iraq and Spain are the ten countries focused on here, with the intention of bringing to light an under-discussed "martyr's geography", one for which justice has still not been served. By turns disquieting, perturbing and offensive, it reveals a cruel and empty absence and brings us face to face with the difficulty of bearing persistent uncertainty. An incisive document that demonstrates photography's capacity to deepen empathy with victims, at the same time as forcefully denouncing the complicity of those who have kept the facts quiet.