Books by Hernan Diaz

Photographs accompany and reinterpret a short story about a drowning victim.

Cartagena, the oldest colonial city in the Caribbean, is one of those destinations that is a catalog of the traveler's senses : the cry of the fresh fruit vendor, tones of church bells, beautiful old walls, bursts of laughter from children with candied coconut, sorrows and illusions meet in a narrow street. The sounds and sights of Cartagena can been experienced through black and white images of the photographer Hernan Diaz. This is travel photography that moves a few hundred years backwards with a turn of the page -- then a century forward with the click of a shutter.

In these photographs Cartagena is young, Cartagena is ancient, Catagena is living history: Cartagena is forever.

Through hundreds of black-and-white photographs, an incomparable portrait artist and one of Colombia's most outstanding photographers showcase Colombia's most important social, cultural, and political figures from the 1960s to the present day.