
#Kjúb 08: Whisky’s Travel Cinema: Colombia
A special online edition of Whisky’s Travel Cinema, in which he will talk about his six weeks of wandering around South American Colombia on 19 May at 7:30pm. The white peaks of the Andean five-thousanders but also deep humid jungles, beautiful colonial architecture, territories controlled by the last active guerrilla on the border with Venezuela, the hot Caribbean coast, the world’s tallest
palm trees and hummingbirds in the magnificent Valle de Cocora, South America’s second largest carnival in Barranquilla, the volcanoes of Los Nevados National Park, the wild slums of Medellín, Pablo Escobar’s city, the world-famous coffee plantations of the Zona Cafetera, the remnants of Indian culture in remote reserves, and a vibrant Bogotá of ten million people… … this will also be the subject of the next installment of Whisky Travel Cinema. Whisky, lead singer of the band Free Europe, after many years of travelling to the remote corners of five continents, has decided to bring to light his many experiences and photographs from his expeditions. On his travels Whisky visited more than 80 countries, focusing mainly on remote areas with attractive natural scenery, preserved indigenous ethnicities and cultures, free from tourism, which he often explored on a motorbike or off-road car, covering more than 50,000 km on the roads – off-road. For all the areas he visited, we can only mention in passing, for example, India (which he visited 15 times…), Nepal, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Laos, Colombia, Cameroon, Argentina, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Georgia, Vietnam, Tajikistan, Borneo, Peru, Australia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Armenia, Bolivia, Kosovo, Uzbekistan, Brazil, the Philippines, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Chile, Morocco, Ladakh, Transnistria, Sikkim, Nagorno-Karabakh and many others. His years of experience as a cinematographer indicate the professional level of his photographs…