Text by Federico Rios. Photos by Federico Rios and Septima Photos.

Colombia’s La Guajira desert is not an easy place to reach, sitting out on arugged peninsular horizon in the northernmost part of the country. It looks out into the blue Caribbean Sea where dozens of tugboats move coal from Cerrejón, the nation’s largest coal mine, [...]

The contemporary art world has its share of wire-rimmed sourpuss critics; in this article Vivana Palacio shares a peek into the world of Colombian artist Esteban Garcia who invites the critics to let their hair down and have some fun.
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Text: Robin Finley. Photos: Santiago Riascos

The streets of Colombia offer a colorful taxonomy of entrepreneurial push carts; here, decontextualized, these convenience stores on wheels serve as a glimpse into Colombia’s informal employment sector. In a country where over 60% of the population lives in poverty, they speak of financial hardship and hope, independence, desperation, and [...]

Text: Camila Álvarez.   Photos Courtesy of De Juepuchas

An increasing number of Colombian musical artists are mining the country’s rich and somewhat undiscovered cultural depths; Jack correspondent Camila Álvarez recently sat down with De Juepuchas, one of the best examples of this movement.

What’s Medellin without a little glamour? Last night, Thursday December 1st, the Jack Mag team attended the Adidas All Originals launch party. The event took place at Attic, a So-Ho style lounge in the recently opened Rio Sur complex. And who doesn’t love launch parties? They bring out a mix of TV personalities and fashion [...]

Carma Cobra just launched a mural reinterpretation of an old urban legend in Cali Colombia. Captured in the video below it is about an alligator that inhabited a local pond and had a propensity for eating the ducks and pets of the people who lived nearby.

Carma Cobra is made up of three Colombian illustrators with [...]

Text and Photography by Josh Weiss
Los Angeles based Josh Weiss (aka DJ Gozar) traveled to Barranquilla, Colombia for a story on the colorful picó sound system culture, and the part it has played in maintaining the Atlantic Coast’s musical connection to Africa and the Caribbean.

Hailing from Medellin, after years spent designing clothes for private companies, Argemiro Sierra took the leap and created his own self-titled line.
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Text Robin Finley. Illustration Joni Benjumenea

Any primary English teacher will tell you their Colombian students often lack a robust arsenal of adjectives. There are so many ways to describe people beyond “nice” and “funny”; here is a small selection of terms applied to those unique characters we come across in daily life.

365 drawings in 365 days, that was the goal of Medellin based painter Manuela Betancourt whose collection is now on display at the Chamber of Commerce in Poblado,  Medellín.

Betancourt’s elegantly austere images are generally composed of ink and pastel, presented in a very minimalist vein for she has won acclaim in Colombia. Her collection entitled [...]