To raise awareness about the massacre at Putis, the Internal Conflict in Peru (1980-2000) and the current human rights situation in Peru, EPAF and its partners have produced a traveling photo exhibit and video documentary entitled Si no vuelvo, búsquenme en Putis   –  If I don’t come back, look for me in Putis. The exhibit was held in Lima, Peru, and Washington, DC in November 2008 and will be shown in London, England in February, 2009.

The photos are the visual testimony of Domingo Giribaldi and the members of EPAF’s trip to Ayacucho for the public display of the clothing found in the mass grave of Putis, Ayacucho. Over the lapse of a week, more than three hundred people, between family, friends and neighbors of the area, arrived at the exhibition of clothing, organized by EPAF, to support with their testimony and presence the search for their missing ones.  Giribaldi’s photographs reveal the desolation, the void and the isolation of a community that, as many others in Peru, has not lost the hope of finding their dead.

The documentary was produced by The Advocacy Project (AP) and follows the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) in their efforts at exhuming the graves at Putis this past May. AP Executive Director Iain Guest and AP Peace Fellow Ash Kosiewicz, a graduate student at Georgetown University, accompanied the team and provided footage for the documentary. You can view the documentary at http://advocacynet.org/page/putisfilm