Alejandro Jaramillo is a sociocultural anthropology PhD candidate at New York University (NYU). He holds a MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin and a certificate in Culture and Media from NYU's Tisch Cinema Studies. He freelances as a photographer and videojournalist for various outlets. Sponsored by the Wenner Gren foundation, his research examines the role of cultural production, commercialization, and objectification of memory in contexts of enduring violence and transitional justice. He is a section editor for the Visual and New Media Review and curator for the Screening Room at Society for Cultural Anthropology's Fieldsights.
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Echos of Earthly Suffering in Transitional Justice: Revisiting the Soundings of Colombia's Truth Commission
As part of the 2016 landmark peace accord, the Colombian State launched a four-year “Comisión de la Verdad,” or Truth and Reconciliation Commission as known in ... More
Cuba’s El Paquete Semanal: The Politics and Poetics of Collaboration in a Pirating Ecosystem
Dread, followed by the drifting wonder of skillful multimodal ethnographic practice. Anthropologist Steffen Köhn’s and Cuban contemporary artist Nestor Siré’s d... More
When Busier is Not Better: An Interview with Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela
Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela's well-written and thought-provoking paper addresses dead on the question of temporal regulation, establishing a departure from the ... More
Hengdian Dreaming
“Another astounding merit of the cinematograph is that it multiplies and immensely softens the play of temporal perspective, training the mind for a gymnastics ... More
Review Forum on Writing with Light Magazine's Issue No. 1: Photography & Forensics
Before it was the subject of medical and, thereafter, forensic scrutiny, the body had long been a locus of image-making practices. Such a reminder—more so than ... More
Limbo
Somewhere amid the high-Andes mist, floating above the plane of signification, where all but one toponym is offered (the mythic El Putumayo), dust particles bea... More
#SOSColombia: Introduction / Introducción
(Con traducción al español) The 2021 Colombian national strike is referred to as el paro nacional. The noun paro derives from the verb parar, to stop. The prote... More
#SOSColombia: Dispatches and Reflections from El Paro Nacional / #SOSColombia: Comunicados y reflexiones desde el paro nacional
(Con traducción al español) This series is centered on the immediacy of the dispatch genre amid the political unrest and instability that characterizes the ongo... More