Two-color history! 💔🤍🖤

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Greetings, friends of the hive, a pleasure to share with you a little life story that, by chance, one random morning this person wanted to give me, and what better way to pay respect to her, who has overcome great obstacles in life, than to share it with you and this community. It seemed so right and just to do so, because life has many shades, but this story is really in color and black and white. That's why these few photos that I was allowed to take will be to your liking, because seeing life with a colorful perspective makes it interesting.

A visit to the park to walk my dog turned into a sort of confessional. I live in Medellín and people are very open and, above all, master the art of conversation and, without realizing it, I was listening to a lady who, in a matter of minutes, told me the story of her life. I had no choice but to be polite and listen to her. I asked her if I could take some pictures, and she said something clear and direct: “Yes, you can, but only a few, because if there are too many, I will feel sorry for you”. And so I did. They were just a few photos, but I think they were enough to accompany the story of her life, which I cannot tell in detail, obviously, but with valuable features.

She is a humble person, with strong features, an unnoticed presence, but a far-reaching vision. She decided to give me her life in a short time; that first phase of the story, her happiness was evident. When she remembered and detailed her life as a child to a young woman, she told me about it, and she laughed; her happiness was evident. I took advantage of the situation and asked her if I could take photos of her; she said: “Yes, but few,” and so it was. I took very few photos. I didn't want to bother her, but I had to capture that moment, plus she is someone who could smoke in the park without any shame so I had to document it, in fact she told me about her life and how happy she was with her mother and grandmother, and she told me many anecdotes about trips, and the family care she felt, it really was an intimate and full moment, and from one moment to the next, she stopped talking, everything was becoming sad, sharp, slow and that look was already different, she just smoked and looked at the ground, I noticed that that part was already her murky and painful life so I just listened to her, indeed it was like that, an adult life alone and without her family, she was wrapped in a lot of pain, and obstacles to overcome, she assures me that today she is a good woman and that she only wants to live in peace, that she learned to be happy and just enjoy her life, there were many details of her life, and in fact you can hear from her that, her improvement and her new life, that is why I think this brief story is very important. It has two major nuances: his colourful young life, and then a period of light and shadow, a story that is undoubtedly hard but with a drive to overcome and stability.

For those of us who like to convert color photographs and turn them into black and white, we are fascinated by this type of eventuality, that is to say that when a photograph is observed it gives you that sensation of power, melancholy, depth, that load of information that color photographs do not usually have, so this exhibition seemed very pertinent to me.

Thank you for reading my work, for always supporting me, and let's continue with this unique task of converting our color photos to black and white to discover those moments of great content.

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💻 Written by me.
📸 Camera and editing: Tecno Camon 20 pro
🖇️ Translator DeepL