Colombian artist shares photos of Pablo Escobar's hippos

Photographer Edgar Jimenez exhibited ‘Adam and Eve’, his portrait of Colombia’s first hippos. PIC/KTVN

Colombian photographer Edgar Jimenez exhibited "Adam and Eve", his portrait of two of the first hippopotamuses brought to Colombia by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. He served as Escobar's personal photographer, and recollected that he used to take pictures of the hippopotamuses from a distance of four metres without any kind of protection, unaware of the dangers that they posed.

The 75-year-old photographer shared that the hippos were bought from a zoo in the US that buys and captures animals from Africa. Jimenez considers the photos that he has taken on Escobar's life to be documentaries, and does not typically exhibit them, but he was invited to the exhibition titled "Microdoses to Tame the Inner Hippopotamus" featuring 20 artists who offer a political critique of what the hippos denote.

Santiago Rueda, curator of the exhibition, shared how the show does not intend to be moralising, but invites people to see how such a paradoxical figure as Escobar's hippos can be the subject of a political critique. The exhibit featured oil paintings, graffiti, photographs and some other unique forms of art.

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