Alexander Fattal is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He is a visual and multimodal anthropologist whose scholarly and creative work has focused on the Colombian armed conflict and efforts to forge a less violent future in that Andean nation. His work spans traditional academic publications, books and peer-reviewed articles, as well as community-based photography work and experimental non-fiction filmmaking. He is interested in questions of spectacle, capitalism, social media, ethnographic theory, Latin American cinema, experimental documentary, and political conflict, a diverse but connected set of subjects that coalesce around the politics of visual representation.