Blue began reporting from Guatemala in 2001, five years after the end of the thirty-six year civil war.  Although the killings have a visible presence in the Guatemalan media, the issue remains largely invisible. This media tactic ensures that social cleansing retains a media presence that, ironically, facilitates a silencing of its own people. These stories are being reported, but not investigated.

 

"I am trying to create a body of work that will document life in Guatemala in ‘peace’ but ask why, at times, it still seems like war."