For this issue’s cover, Rory O'Bryen offers us the photograph "Sal, Manaure" taken in 2011 during one of the multiple journeys through the country that he has been embarking on annually since 1998, always with his old Leica camera. That year, sporadic rains and strong winds ceaselessly erased the roads of La Guajira, and the return to Riohacha from Bahía Portete became difficult. He found on the surface of a saline the image of the desert’s ability to turn into sea at any given moment.
Rory O'Bryen is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Literature, Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary Colombian Culture: Spectres of La Violencia (2008), Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect (2013), Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader (2017), and Transnational Hispanic Studies (2020). His current research project focuses on the Magdalena River in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.
Published: 2021-06-15