Photography as a social memory in the context of the Colombian armed conflict

This article seeks to think about the complexity of documentary photography in the publication of the Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica of Colombia, !Basta ya! Colombia: memorias de guerra y dignidad (2013), making a journey from Visual Theories and Social Sciences through photographs and testimonies, and the construction of victim in the images. Not without first starting from a contextualization of the Colombian armed conflict that allows to place the historicization, the different armed actors involved, the causes and consequences.