Juanita Escobar is a photographer based in Colombia. She is the co-author of the book Silencios: Un llano de mujeres, and the author of Orinoco: frontera de agua and El Llano a ras de cielo. She has received numerous awards, including the Colombo-Swiss National Photography Prize and the National Geographic Society Portfolio Review Prize. Her work has been published by National Geographic, Time, The New York Times, Der Spiegel and Geo.