the official photo of the new President of Colombia is one of the traditions that those who reach this position must comply with, since it is the image that will be found in all public agencies. and the new President Gustav Petro he took it very seriously.
After an intense one-hour flight by plane, another helicopter tour and a walk of more than 40 minutes through an inhospitable area, the new president Petro, the photographer Mauricio Velez and a logistics team found a beautiful place in Caño Cristales, in the Serranía de la Macarena, in the department of Meta, to take the photo of the official image of the country’s president.
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“he wanted something different”, acknowledges Vélez, who gave the exclusive of that photograph to the newspaper EL TIEMPO.
“After winning the elections we began to plan the next step of the inauguration, but we had to have the official image of the President of the Republic, who is part of all the lines of command in all the military battalions, where he is from this SundayVelez recalled.
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“Automatically it occurred to the President that he wanted to do it in a supremely powerful natural site and that was Caño Cristales, because it is a place that he has a lot of affection for and reflects nature. It seeks to motivate everyone to get to know this unique space”, notes Mauricio Vélez, who shot his camera many times on August 3 to achieve the desired concept.
“It is a photo that does not use the traditional war flag, to promote a new idea of peace and union”, concluded the author of the image.
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