Juanita Escobar Photographs The Story of Women in a Conflict Zone

While border crisis issues typically suggest big picture narratives and large-scale issues, Colombian documentary photographer Juanita Escobar has chosen to focus her efforts on the complex lives of women who have settled along the Orinoco River. Straddling the Colombian and Venezuelan border, the river has become a symbol of geographical divide, border conflicts, and numerous adversities that Juanita has found women, in particular, to be vulnerable to. In her long-term documentary series, she h...