Photojournal Esteban Perroud
” These pictures were taken during a trip around the world through cities in sociopolitical conflict: I arrived in Harper, Liberia, in Africa, where life, due to the civil war, became a strife for its people. A civil war that ended leaving a lack of water, electricity or public service, as well as scarcity of jobs, and resulted in a socially unfavorable environment. Being among these people with my camera, as a silent observer, allowed me to see hope reflected in their eyes, there, where none was to be expected.”
Peace has now outlasted war in Liberia, the oldest nation of the continent, but for 14 years, between 1989 and 2003, a brutal civil war ravaged the nation leading to the death of close to 250,000 people. Women were raped and mutilated; warlords recruited child soldiers to fuel the conflict; tens of thousands of people were displaced and fled the country. The full freight of the war, its callousness, and its collateral effect have continued to remain a defining marker of the West African state.
