Patrick Zachmann "Mina Real", one of the mines to be still owned by Colombian investors or families. There are 23 tunnels and 500 miners working in the mine. They usually are not paid or get a very little salary bu (...)
Patrick Zachmann "Mina Real", one of the mines to be still owned by Colombian investors or families. There are 23 tunnels and 500 miners working in the mine. They usually are not paid or get a very little salary bu (...)
Patrick Zachmann Village of Quipama. Region of Boyaca, Colombia. January 2017. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann "Mina Real", one of the mines to be still owned by Colombian investors or families. There are 23 tunnels and 500 miners working in the mine. They usually are not paid or get a very little salary bu (...)
Patrick Zachmann "Guaqueros", men and women coming from all over the country, looking for the green precious stone which can make them suddendly rich. But nowadays, the chances to find them are very small since fo (...)
Patrick Zachmann "Guaqueros", men and women coming from all over the country, looking for the green precious stone which can make them suddendly rich. But nowadays, the chances to find them are very small since fo (...)
Patrick Zachmann "Guaqueros", men and women coming from all over the country, looking for the green precious stone which can make them suddendly rich. But nowadays, the chances to find them are very small since fo (...)
Patrick Zachmann "Guaqueros", men and women coming from all over the country, looking for the green precious stone which can make them suddendly rich. But nowadays, the chances to find them are very small since fo (...)
Patrick Zachmann Miner(s) working for the multinational company "MTC", which owns the main part of the mine of Muzo and Quipama. This forain entreprise pays the workers 1.200000 pesos (400US$) every month but the s (...)
Patrick Zachmann Emerald business in the street, Plazoleta del Rosario. Piece of "ganga" from which oftent figurines are sculpted, and emerald stones hold by traders. Bogota, Colombia. 17 January 2017. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Doris Vega, 55, has been working as a "guaquera" for seven years and her husband is still working as a guaquero in the river. Doris' daughter, Berenice, 34, has been shot in the head by accident a (...)
Patrick Zachmann Emerald traders in the market square where the traders gather every day. Muzo. Region of Boyaca, Colombia. January 2017. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Fernando Acero, 34, an emerald mine worker with his wife, Patricia Castillo, 30, six months pregnant, and their son Javier, one year old. Emerald story. Quipama. Region of Boyaca, Colombia. January (...)
Patrick Zachmann Emerald shopowners and traders. View of Plazoleta del Rosario from offices, meeting point for important buyers of emeralds. Bogota, Colombia. 19 January 2017. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann "Mina Real", one the mines to be still owned by Colombian investors or families. "Guadalupe", the blessed virgin of the "esmeralderos", a sculpture covered with emeralds (...)
Patrick Zachmann Emerald business in the street, Plazoleta del Rosario. Bogota, Colombia. 17 January 2017. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Guns which have been used during the "green war" (emerald war) in the eighties and nineties. Emerald story. Quipama. Region of Boyaca, Colombia. January 2017. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann "Guaqueros", men and women coming from all over the country, looking for the green precious stone which can make them suddendly rich. But nowadays, the chances to find them are very small since fo (...)
Patrick Zachmann Cemetery. Village of Quipama. Region of Boyaca, Colombia. January 2017. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
