Latin America Professional Award 2022 Shortlist

‘Claims’ are images of small, artificial reefs. It’s a series about the ambiguity of human intervention in the oceans, and the power of marine life over objects. Under the sea, all surfaces are susceptible to being colonised. From the moment of immersion, a rapid succession of organisms develops over any object. In a short time, the sea devours any Offering – be it. the remains of a wreckage, industrial equipment or just plain garbage. Life will tenaciously hold on to any support it finds.

I use the camera as prosthesis to photography things too small, or too fast, or too dark to be observed with the unaided eye