If I’m honest, before coming to Panama, I really didn’t know much about its murky 20th century history with the Americans. In fact, I remember rather swiftly passing over the subject in history class (I went to an American high school in London). I wasn’t aware it was so recent and raw and that I’d still find a decaying U.S. military footprint still so present throughout central Panama. And little did I know it was all about to become my new fascination when I landed myself on the doorstep of a prized Panamanian artist whose work and studio I’d requested to photograph one day…
