Charles Bergquist is a California-based freelance director, designer, and photographer. Originally from Chicago, he now divides his time between San Diego and Los Angeles. Though Bergquist was formally educated in economics and finance, his voyage into photography and design took root during his years at university, with late nights spent teaching himself Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and scouring the Internet for video.
Most of Charles' work is the filtered result of working in multiple mediums of image capture and heavy layering. All textures, photos, and imagery are shot and then combined, regardless of format. His work is colorful as well as dark, shifting from feeling to feeling, most notably in the Everyday Project, selections from which have been chosen for his first print offering with Ghostly International.

Accompanied by key documents on the current cycle of violence and revealing chapters by knowledgeable collaborators on drug trafficking and the national economy, violations of human rights, war, violence and gender, and social movements, this book is a benchmark in the literature on Colombian politics. Ideal for the classroom. (Loveman, Brian)

From the dark labyrinth of Colombia come these ten remarkable essays—each a rare combination of professional objectivity and political engagement—to explain a nation in the 1990s that has been at war with itself for a half century. The complex interplay of today's actors, the State, the guerrillas, the paramilitaries, the drug traffickers, civil society, women and men who are the victims and the survivors of these wars, and now increasingly the U.S. government, is dramatically revealed in these pages. (Herbert Tico Braun)

Authored by the most insightful Colombian intellectuals, this is an important, timely book that is essential to understanding the current crisis in Colombia and possible solutions. (Catherine LeGrand)

The editors of this work are to be commended for crafting an important book that synthesizes the extant literature showing the historical continuities that line Colombia's violent past with the present. (Revista Interamericana De Bibliografia)