A photographic expedition into Colombia's past
On their mission to explore South America, German
volcanologists Alphons Stübel and Wilhelm Reiss arrived in
Colombia in 1868 with the idea of reaching the Ecuadorian
Chimborazo. In addition to their field diaries, a collection of at
least 200 extraordinary photographs that they acquired here
in the country attest to their journey through this stretch,
which took more than two years. Historians Sven Schuster and
Jessica Alejandra Nueva Oviedo compiled these images that
for most Colombians are unknown, but that should be part of
the national photographic history.