New Book Released - COLOMBIA: Between the Lines

I am pleased to announce that after many trips over a 5 year period and then 2 years in production, I have finally published my first book COLOMBIA: Between the Lines.

Book signings and exhibition dates and locations will be posted in the future.
Very many thanks to all of you who have supported and encouraged me with this project over the years.

Best regards, Jason.

Nervous policemen patrolling an oil rich border town, a wounded Government soldier lying next to his dead colleagues, a rebel couple kissing, displaced families building new homes and a self confessed killer reading her daughter a bedtime story; these are some of the characters that inhabit the shadowy and dangerous world in which photojournalist Jason P. Howe immersed himself over a period of 5 years to document the Colombia behind the headlines.

Sensational news stories and cold analysis insulate us from the reality of daily life for the thousands of Colombians that have taken up arms and the millions that have fled their homes to escape the violence. These stark images reduce the decades of conflict to the basic human struggle to survive. The difference between victim and victor, rebel and refugee, assassin and activist is often only a matter of perspective. The conflict constantly evolves as ideologies, politics, social injustice and most importantly greed continue to add fuel to a self perpetuating war that is resulting in one of the world’s worst and most under reported humanitarian disasters.

COLOMBIA: Between the Lines is available as a ‘Popular Edition’ in soft-back priced at £20 and ‘Collectors Edition’ which is hard-bound and limited to 400 copies, each one signed and numbered by the author priced at £40. Each edition contains 85 black and white photographs and 32 pages of accompanying text including a foreword by Garry M. Leech, an introduction by Jason Burke as well as entries from the photographers journal.

Available to order exclusively online at www.ConflictPics.com/book

by Jason P. Howe at Sat Jun 07 14:36:50 UTC 2008 (ed. Jun 20 2008) Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan | Bookmark | | Report spam→

Congratulations.

Any word on the movie yet?

by Paul Treacy | 07 Jun 2008 16:06 | New York City, United States | | Report spam→

is it possible to purchase a signed copy of it?

by Milos Djuric | 07 Jun 2008 18:06 | Hannover, Germany | | Report spam→

Awesome man, I’ve bought three copies so far. Get yours before the streets are dry

by Eros Hoagland | 07 Jun 2008 20:06 | Berkeley, United States | | Report spam→

Just bought mine

by Eric Beecroft | 07 Jun 2008 21:06 | Salt Lake City, Utah - home!, United States | | Report spam→

Thanks Paul, the movie is in the early stages of development at present.

I met recently with the screen writer to discuss which elements of the story about my time in Colombia and the relationship with the female assassin will bear some simplification for the mass audience and which points I feel are crucial to telling the story properly.

The movie concept, which they see as being a kind of SALVADOR/The Year of Living Dangerously set in Colombia was pitched at the Canne film festival a few weeks back and we are waiting to see if any of the major studios have or will option it. Then another whole long process will begin.

In the meantime the movie agent in LA who I signed to deal with the initial flood of inquiries about the story has hooked me up with a literary agent in NYC who is working on securing me an decent advance so that I can take 6 months off from shooting to go and ‘write’ the story as a book as opposed to the small amount of text that is included as back ground notes in ‘Between the Lines’. It will be quite a challenge but I look forward to getting going on it.

I will keep you up to date.

JPH

by Jason P. Howe | 10 Jun 2008 08:06 (ed. Jun 10 2008) | Kabul, Afghanistan | | Report spam→

I want one signed!!!

by Hugo Infante | 10 Jun 2008 12:06 | Santiago, Chile | | Report spam→

Congratulations. Just ordered mine and looking forward to it. $20 seems cheap. Oh, wait, that’s 27 pounds. By the way just saw Salvador recently on TV. Great movie, made me want to be a photographer.

by Jonathan Lipkin | 10 Jun 2008 18:06 | Brooklyn, United States | | Report spam→

I read your assassin-lover tale in The Guardian(?). Gripping! Looking forward to buying the book. Will make a great movie. You will obviously be played by Brad Pitt. Selma Hayek will play your lover.

by Preston Merchant | 11 Jun 2008 15:06 | New York, United States | | Report spam→

Felicitaciones! I ordered another copy today and put in a request to purshase one for the library at the college I work at. Brought it to the attention of the PJ instructor who will be using it in his classes.

by Jason Ness | 12 Jun 2008 16:06 | Northern Alberta, Canada | | Report spam→

Hi Jason,

Your book just arived in the mail today and it looks amazing.

Thanks.

Srini

by Srinivas Kuruganti | 13 Jun 2008 15:06 | Harlem, NY, United States | | Report spam→

just ordered mine. can’t wait to see it

by Bryan Denton | 13 Jun 2008 15:06 | Beirut, Lebanon | | Report spam→

I just got my copy yesterday. Amazing stuff. Keep it up, man.

by Bill Putnam | 20 Jun 2008 17:06 | Washington, DC, United States | | Report spam→