VICTOR RAISON

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Victor Raison is a French journalist and photographer born in Switzerland. He is currently a graduate student of Columbia University Journalism School. He has a Master’s Degree in literature from La Sorbonne University and a Master’s degree in photojournalism from the London College of Communication. He started working as a photographer for Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes, New Caledonia’s local newspaper. He then settled in Colombia as a freelance photographer and journalist where he works on a long-term ongoing project documenting Colombia’s main harbor, Buenaventura, a city controlled by gangs fighting over the control of the drug trafficking routes. He also focuses on migration issues with neighboring Venezuela and the last active guerrilla the ELN - Ejercicio de Liberacion Nacional.