| Summary: | On January 26, 1983, eight journalists, a guide and a villager were killed in the village of Uchuraccay, located in the highlands of Peru, while investigating the killings committed by the Communist Party of Peru “Sendero Luminoso”. One of the photojournalists killed on the spot, Willy Retto, managed to take the last images of those facts before he died. These photographs were found several months after the slaughter obtaining, from there, different meanings in their transit through the judiciary system, by researchers and family members, allowing the various versions of the murders. In 2003, the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation recovered and published the photographs in its final report “Yuyanapaq: To Remember”, which revived the struggle for the memory on those facts. The character of “proof” that is attributed to this set of images, its publication in the visual narrative about that period and its presentation as the last living witness of the photojournalist, are interesting for analysis in the light of the proposals about photography as testimony and memory material. Uchuraccay still is for some sectors a pending and unresolved issue.
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