The Embassy of Colombia to the Kingdom of Thailand is proud to present the exhibition Colombia in 25 Photographs by Hernán Díaz (1929-2009) at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in Bangkok from 20 October to 1 November 2020.

The exhibition, which includes a select group of 25 black and white photographs, taken between 1959 and 1990, is part of Diaz extensive photographic activity capturing landscapes, people, cities, and customs of Colombia. The images portray the intimacy of some renowned faces in Colombia’s cultural and political life, the diversity and nature of our landscapes and the beauty in architectural details as testimony of our past. It is a journey through Colombia’s rural and urban scenery and its biodiversity.

Hernán Díaz is recognized as one of the most outstanding photographers of the second half of the 20th century in Colombia. During more than 60 years of photographic activity, he contributed enormously to give photography a significant space within the arts in Colombia and left an incomparable visual narrative of the history of the country in an archive of over 70.000 pictures, part of private and public collections in Bogota, New York, Madrid and Paris, among others cities.

This exhibition, carried out in the framework of the Colombia’s Foreign Ministry Promotion Plan Abroad, brings to Bangkok not only an important body of artistic work, but also serves as an opportunity to showcase a stimulating cultural exchange between Colombia and the Kingdom of Thailand that the Embassy is committed to develop further.

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Tel: 02-168-8715