Bittersweet Forest is a book-in-progress by photographer Juan Orrantia. He was kind enough to allow me to share some images of the dummy along with pictures from the book.

Juan says: Bittersweet Forest is a book about fragments of violence that remain in our imagination. For this it goes into the forests of Colombia, and lingers in a town that for many years smelled of cocaine, and was home to a famous right-wing militia paramilitary commander. After his arrest I visited this small town on multiple occasions to engage his lingering presence, the leftovers and effects of years under his power, the imaginaries of a time when cocaine, money, patriarchy and violent desires filtered life in many ways.

Juan is a Colombian photographer living in Johannesburg. To keep up with his work visit: juanorrantia.com