Hay Festival Jericó 2026

Federico Ríos Escobar (Colombia) has been taking photographs of migrants travelling north through Latin America since 2013. Less than four years ago, the photos he took for The New York Times in the Isthmus of Panama were seen all over the world. His camera lens documented the harsh jungle conditions of this narrow strip of land as he followed a group of Venezuelan migrants trying to cross it, in search of a better life. Since then, this photojournalist has documented the passage through the Darien area of people from four continents, and this year he won a prestigious World Press Photo award in the Long-term Project category for his work. He will talk to the BBC Mundo journalist, José Carlos Cueto, about his reporting and about migration.