October 24, 2008, Lima, Peru: The Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) will hold a photography exhibition of images from Putis starting Tuesday, Nov. 4 at the Centro de la Imagen in Lima.

The exhibit, titled “If I don’t come back…look for me in Putis,” is the visual testimony of Domingo Giribaldi, documenting EPAF’s trip to Ayacucho for the public display of the clothing found in the mass grave at Putis.

EPAF, an Advocacy Project partner, exhumed the mass grave at Putis in May. The largest of Peru’s mass graves, Putis marks one of the most brutal incidents in the country’s 20-year internal conflict. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that in December 1984, 123 men, women and children from the communities of Cayramayo, Vizcatampata, Orccohuasi and Putis were executed by units of the Peruvian Army and buried at Putis.

During one week, more than 300 people family, friends and neighbors visited 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 and isolation of a community that, like many others in Peru, has not lost hope of finding its dead. The main goal of the exhibit is to raise awareness of Peru’s missing people and their families.

The exhibit will be at the Centro de Imagen until Nov. 19, when it will be taken to different towns around Peru.

Photographs from the exhibit will also travel to the United States, where they will be displayed from Nov. 13-15 at Georgetown University in an event organized by AP, and from Nov. 19-21 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, in association with the Denver Justice and Peace Committee.