Uchuraccay

This work tells about the the pain of absence and resilience in the Peruvian Andes, 30 years after the armed conflict. The people have given a new meaning to the loss, transforming their memory of the past into the engine of life.

This body of work tells about the the pain of absence in Uchuraccay, a rural community of the Peruvian Andes wounded by the armed conflict in the eighties, but above all, talks about the resilience of the Andean people, who have given a new meaning to the loss, transforming their memory of the past, into the engine of peace, born of death itself, to rebuild their identity as individuals and as a community.

According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, more than 69,000 people died or disappeared in Peru between 1980-2000, in violent actions committed by terrorist groups and military forces. At the foot of the Apu Razuhuillca, at 4,000 meters in the highlands of Ayacucho, the community of Uchuraccay rises from the ashes after the killing of 135 peasants by the hand of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso and the military forces; as revenge for the massacre of eight journalists, and their guide, in january 26, 1983.